Climb aboard: ferries, oil tankers, fishing ships, icebreakers, tugboats, gigantic aircraft carriers and more. Some protect the waters, others transport fuel around the world and still more take thousands of people on holiday to exotic destinations. Kids (and many adults, too) will love this privileged, detailed look at the bridge of a fireboat, the back of a loaded cargo ship and sailboats in mid race - all displayed in dazzling, long gatefolds. In addition to the array of vessels, there's entertaining information about the Golden Age of pirates on the high seas, shipyards and shipbuilding, how tugboats work, yacht races and much more.

 

This book is part of a book series called Up Close .

There are 28 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Sterling Juvenile .

Andra Serlin Abramson is the author of Fighter Planes UP CLOSE (9781402747960) and Submarines UP CLOSE (9781402747977), among others. Mordecai-Mark Mac Low is a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in the department of Astrophysics.