| American Sailing Ships Coloring Book Contributor(s): Copeland, Peter F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486253880 ISBN-13: 9780486253886 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $5.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1987 Annotation: Forty-five magnificent ready-to-color illustrations depict USS Constitution, sloops, whalers, frigates, clippers, more. Informative captions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Activity Books - General - Juvenile Nonfiction | Transportation - Boats, Ships & Underwater Craft |
| Dewey: NA |
| Series: Dover History Coloring Book |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 8.3" W x 11.01" (0.38 lbs) 48 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The magnificent age of sail lives again in this distinctive collection of ready-to-color American sailing ships. In a pictorial display spanning over 200 years of maritime history, artist and avid sailor Peter Copeland meticulously depicts vessels ranging from small, shallow-draft topsail schooners of Colonial times and early sail-and-steam powered ships to modern reconstructions of classic 17th-century vessels. Forty-five exciting, ready-to-color illustrations include the privateer frigate Bethel (1748), a colonial sloop (1760), the Andrew Doria (1776), the U.S.S. Constitution (1812), the paddle steamer Savannah (1819), the clipper ship Helena (1849), a Nantucket whaler (1850), and more. Complementing well-researched and accurately rendered drawings are informative captions which describe each ship -- dates, types of vessel, construction, historical background, distinguishing characteristics, brief anecdotes, and more. Educational and entertaining, this impressive, fact-filled volume will delight colorists of all ages, students, teachers, as well as anyone captivated by the romance and adventure of the high seas. |