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Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages: An Activity Guide to North American Sailing Life
Valerie Petrillo
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Description for Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages: An Activity Guide to North American Sailing Life
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 215 x 279 x 14. Weight in Grams: 640.
Children are fascinated with sailing ships, lighthouses, whaling, shipwrecks, and mutinies, and these 50-plus activities will provide them with a boatful of fun. This activity guide shows kids what life was like for the greenhands, old salts, and captains on the high seas during the great age of sail in the 19th century: aboard square-riggers, clippers, whalers, schooners, and packet ships. Life aboard ship was an exciting subculture of American life with its own language, food, music, art, and social structure. Children will learn that many captains brought their wives and children aboard ship, and that kids who learned how ... Read more
Children are fascinated with sailing ships, lighthouses, whaling, shipwrecks, and mutinies, and these 50-plus activities will provide them with a boatful of fun. This activity guide shows kids what life was like for the greenhands, old salts, and captains on the high seas during the great age of sail in the 19th century: aboard square-riggers, clippers, whalers, schooners, and packet ships. Life aboard ship was an exciting subculture of American life with its own language, food, music, art, and social structure. Children will learn that many captains brought their wives and children aboard ship, and that kids who learned how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
A Cappella Books United States
Number of pages
210
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781556524752
SKU
V9781556524752
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About Valerie Petrillo
Valerie Petrillo has contributed to Turtle magazine, Boston Parents Paper, and Andover Townsman. She lives in Andover, Massachusetts.
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