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The Pop-up Book of Ships

Amazon.com Price:  $10.77 (as of 18/04/2019 08:35 PST- Details)

Description

The Pop-Up Book of Ships is a dynamic, informative pop-up book surveying the history of maritime invention and exploration. The book is a dramatic pop-up journey into the world’s maritime past, presenting quite a lot of maritime cultural innovations. From the early explorers such as the Santa Maria to the famous Mayflower; from marauding pirate ships to frigates like the Bonhomme Richard and the usConstitution; from a quaint Mississippi riverboat to the luxurious SS Normandie ocean liner and a superbly crafted The united states’s Cup yacht; from impressive aircraft carriers such as the Intrepid or the Enterprise to essentially the most advanced nuclear submarine. Readers will learn about the HMS Victory, labeled a “first-rate ship,” a designation that was once used as early as the eighteenth century by the British Royal Navy for its largest ships mounting 100 guns or more; or that unlike a traditional square-rigged ship, the sails of a Chinese junk will also be moved toward the long axis of the ship, allowing a junk to sail into the wind, to name only two. The Pop-Up Book of Ships presents a vibrant history of one of the crucial world’s greatest maritime adventures. Colorful, informative, and fun, it adeptly showcases maritime adventure and the lure of the sea, and is an engaging book for sailors and seamen of every age, in addition to those with an interest in ship history.


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