Presents a children's history of the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and provides information on how the trip was financed, fifteenth-century navigational tools, and some of the problems Columbus and his crew encountered.
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored the American Practical Navigator.
"Climb on deck for 10 ocean adventures, starting with the groundbreaking exploits of Zheng He's 15th-century treasure ships and navigating unknown waters with Vasco da Gama's S?o Gabriel. Sail on the Lady Penrhyn with the first convicts exiled to Australia, and on USS Susquehanna's pivotal mission to Japan. Witness the tense confrontations of the Holocaust survivor ship Exodus 1947 in Israel and theKomagata Maru in Canada, and the standoff when Somali pirates seized the oil tanker Sirius Star"--Provided by publisher.
"Ellen Prentiss had always felt the sea tug at her heart, strong as a full-moon tide." In 1851, she navigated her husband's clipper ship from New York City, around Cape Horn, and north to San Francisco, setting a world speed record in the process.
