David Gibbins
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David Gibbins | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Occupation | Novelist, archaeologist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British and Canadian |
| Education | University of Bristol (B.A.) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Ph.D.) |
| Genre | archaeological and historical fiction |
| Children | one daughter |
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David Gibbins (born 1962) is an underwater archaeologist and a bestselling novelist.
Early life
Gibbins was born in 1962 in
He qualified as a scuba diver in Canada at the age of 15, and since then has dived extensively around the world.[1]
Career
Academic career
From 1991 to 1993 he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. From 1993 to 2000 he was a lecturer in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies at the University of Liverpool, and from 1999 to 2001 he was an Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology.[2] During the 1980s and 1990s he led many expeditions to investigate ancient shipwrecks and submerged ruins in the Mediterranean, including Roman shipwrecks off Sicily and the harbour of ancient Carthage. In 1999–2000 he was part of an international team excavating a 5th-century BC shipwreck off Turkey. His publications on ancient shipwreck sites have appeared in scientific journals, books and popular magazines.
Since 2002 he had been a full-time writer and independent scholar. In 2015 he co-founded the research group Cornwall Maritime Archaeology, which has made numerous shipwreck discoveries off south-west England. In 2016 he rediscovered the wreck of the Schiedam, a ship involved in the evacuation of English Tangier in 1684 and associated with Samuel Pepys,[3] and in 2018 the site of the President, an English East Indiaman.[4] In 2019 on another wreck he discovered a unique 16th century copper-alloy statuette of the crucified Christ attributable to Guglielmo della Porta.[5]
Writing
On leaving academia he became a novelist, writing archaeological thrillers derived from his own background. His novels have sold over three million copies and have been
Honours
He is a
Select bibliography
Fiction
Jack Howard series
- Gibbins, David. 2005. ISBN 978-0-7553-2422-4
- Gibbins, David. 2006. ISBN 978-0-7553-2927-4
- Gibbins, David. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7553-3514-5
- Gibbins, David. 2009. ISBN 978-0-553-59125-5
- Gibbins, David. 2010. ISBN 978-0-7553-5395-8
- Gibbins, David. 2011. ISBN 978-0-7553-5398-9
- Gibbins, David. 2013. Pharaoh. London: Headline and New York: Bantam Dell. ISBN 978-0-755-35403-0
- Gibbins, David. 2014. Pyramid. London: Headline and New York: Bantam Dell. ISBN 978-0-755-35406-1
- Gibbins, David. 2016. Testament. London: Headline and New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-1-4722-3019-5
- Gibbins, David. 2018. Inquisition. London: Headline and New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-1-2500-8064-6
Total War Rome series
- Gibbins, David. 2013. Destroy Carthage. London: Macmillan and New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-2307-7094-2
- Gibbins, David. 2015. The Sword of Attila. London: Macmillan and New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-1-250-03895-1
Non-fiction
- Gibbins, David, 1988. "Surgical instruments from a Roman shipwreck off Sicily." Antiquity 62 (235), pp. 294–7.
- Edge, C.J. & Gibbins, D.J. 1989. "Underwater discovery of Roman surgical instruments", British Medical Journal. 298, pp. 1645-6.
- Gibbins, David. 1990. "The hidden museums of the Mediterranean." New Scientist 128 (1739), pp. 35–40.
- Gibbins, David and Christopher Chippindale (editors), 1990. "Maritime archaeology." Antiquity 64 (243), pp. 334–400.
- Gibbins, David, 1990. "Analytical approaches in maritime archaeology: a Mediterranean perspective". Antiquity 64 (243), pp. 376–389.
- Gibbins, David and Christopher Chippindale, 1990. "Heritage at sea: proposals for the better protection of British archaeological sites underwater". Antiquity 64 (243), pp. 390–400.
- Gibbins, David. 1993. "Bronze Age wreck's revelations." Illustrated London News 281 (7116), pp. 72–3.
- Gibbins, David, 1993. "Das im Mittelmeer verborgene Museum." Mannheimer Forum 92/93. Ein Panorama der Naturwissen schaften. Mannheim: Boehringer Mannheim, pp. 175–243.
- Gibbins, David, 1995. "What shipwrecks can tell us." Antiquity 69:263, pp. 408–411.
- Gibbins, David J.L., Mike M. Emery and Keith J. Mathews, 1996. The Archaeology of an Ecclesiastical Landscape. Chester Archaeology Excavation and Survey Report No. 9. Chester City Council/The University of Liverpool. ISBN 978-1-872587-09-7
- Gibbins, David, 1997. "Deleta est Carthago?" Antiquity 71 (271), pp. 217–219.
- Gibbins, David. 1998. "Maritime archaeology". in Shaw, I. and R. Jameson (editors) Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-17423-3
- Gibbins, David. 2000. "Classical shipwreck excavation at Tektas Burnu, Turkey." Antiquity 74:283, pp. 199–201.
- Gibbins, David. 2001. "Shipwrecks and Hellenistic trade." in Zofia H. Archibald et al. (editors), Hellenistic Economies. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 273–312. ISBN 978-0-415-23466-5
- Gibbins, David and Jonathan Adams (editors), 2001. Shipwrecks. World Archaeology 32.3. London: Routledge. ISSN 0043-8243
- Gibbins, David and Jonathan Adams, 2001. "Shipwrecks and maritime archaeology." World Archaeology, 32:3, pp. 279–291.
- Gibbins, David. 2001. "A Roman shipwreck of c. AD 200 at Plemmirio, Sicily: evidence for north African amphora production during the Severan period." World Archaeology 32.3, pp. 311–334.
- Gibbins, David. 2019. "The 9th Lancers and the assault on the 'Qaudrilateral' during the Battle of the Somme, 15 September 1916. The Chapka (Regimental Journal of the Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)) 2018: 138–41. [1]
Footnotes
References
- Sue Fox, 'Best of Times, Worst of Times: David Gibbins', London Sunday Times, December 4, 2005 [2].