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Text and photos provide an introduction to the history of boats, from simple floating logs and dugout canoes to high-tech fishing boats, icebreakers, and floating airports.

Explores the development of map making from the earliest plans carved on stone to the latest computer-drawn charts.

A biography of the Portuguese prince who made sailing safer by his navigational maps and who designed the caravel--a type of sailing ship.

A history of the development and uses of boats, ships, and rafts, from birch-bark canoes to luxury liners.