Ship

Informationen zum Autor David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given “to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.” Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books. David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont. Zusammenfassung In Ship we join a group of underwater archaeologists as they search for a long-lost caravel in the reefs of the Caribbean Sea. A combination of drawings, maps, and diagrams details the ship's recovery, and as clues to the past are pieced together, a story emerges - of the triumphant birth of the ship Magdalena from Spain, and its tragic voyage to a far-away continent.

Product details

• Authors: David Macaulay
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 99
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.1995
• EAN: 9780395745182
• ISBN: 978-0-395-74518-2
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 298 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Ancient World, United States of America, USA, Children’s interactive and activity books and kits, Educational: Technology, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era), JUVENILE NONFICTION: Activity Books / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / United States / 19th Century, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Technology / Inventions, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Adventure & Adventurers, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Readers / Chapter Books, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Technology / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / Exploration & Discovery, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Architecture, JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / Ancient