Sail! can you command a sea voyage?

Sail! can you command a sea voyage?

Julia Bruce

Book - 2009

"Learn how to successfully complete a voyage from Portugal to India for spices in the 1500s"--Provided by publisher.

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Subjects
Seafaring life > Juvenile literature.
Sailing ships > Juvenile literature.
Spice trade > History > Juvenile literature.
Published
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Elementary 2009.
Language
English
Main Author
Julia Bruce (-)
Other Authors
Peter Dennis, 1950- (illustrator)
Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 30 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780766034778
  • The challenge
  • Route to India
  • Preparing to sail
  • Passengers and crew
  • Know the ship
  • Keeping your vessel shipshape
  • Navigation
  • Sailing your ship
  • Mutineers and privateers
  • Storms and shipwrecks
  • Silks and spices.
Review by Horn Book Review

In this volume, readers take on the position of captain of a sixteenth-century trading ship. They're presented with "The Challenge" (bring back goods to Europe) and instructed on how to accomplish the task; in so doing, the book teaches about the time period. While the numerous illustrations combined with text are informative, the crowded layouts are difficult to follow. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

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