At age fifty-nine, Harold Snow knows that death is creeping closer than ever, and his new post as boatswain aboard a decrepit tanker carrying a lethal cargo of chemicals tests his courage and endurance as he embarks on a dangerous quest to steal a black-market fortune.
Step-by-step illustrated instructions for making a milk carton bus, walnut boat, matchbox train, and other types of motor vehicles and ships out of materials available at home or school.
Looks at different types of ships, explains how they are powered, and discusses the life of a sailor, pirate attacks, ship building and repair, and other topics.
Presents the true story of three men sent by President McKinley in 1897 to drive two herds of reindeer across parts of Alaska to feed stranded whalers whose ships were trapped in ice.
In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.
