a search for the beginnings of navigation and seaborne civilizations
Heyerdahl, Thor
1979
Based upon the author's famous maritime expeditions and upon his explorations in South and Central America and Mexico, this book demonstrates how reed-boat travelers crossed the Atlantic in early historic times and brought a high civilization to the Americas, and how the newly civilized people of the Americas in turn brought culture to Easter Island and the Central Pacific by balsa raft.
Determined to recover the Adomal and to prevent the pirate Zavac from doing more damage, Hal and his brotherband crew persue Zavac to the lawless fortress of Ragusa where, if Hal is to succeed, he will have to go beyond his brotherband training and face the pirate one-on-one in a fight to the finish.
Hal and the Herons, having won the Brotherband competition, are accused of stealing the Skandians' most sacred artifact and face challenges on their journey to reclaim it and clear their names.
Benjamin Franklin Orville's life is torn asunder when a simple trip to the market goes awry and Benjy is taken by captors with a group of German immigrants to work with the poorly kept crew of the "Ella Dawn," a North Atlantic oystering vessel.
After Anton, a cat who likes to listen to sea shanties in the local saloon, is kidnapped to be a ratter on a ship his brother Cecil, who is has always longed for a searfaring adventure, boards another ship in order to rescue him.
Catching a baby in his hat sets off a series of adventures for a young nineteenth-century English boy as he becomes a sea captain and finds a surprising mate.
Hal and the Herons, having won the Brotherband competition, are accused of stealing the Skandians' most sacred artifact and face challenges on their journey to reclaim it and clear their names.
"Following clues left by their missing father, twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their world-famous treasure-hunting parents"--Provided by publisher.
