title: A history of ships and seafaring (The New illustrated library of science and invention)
author: Courtlandt Canby
description: hc with dj, 117 pages, 1st edition, 1963, b&w and colored pictures, history of ships and seafaring
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  # Man on the Ocean
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### R.M. Ballantyne
  
  
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  * [CHAPTER ONE. TREATS OF SHIPS IN GENERAL.](moce_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER TWO. THE EARLIEST DAYS OF WATER-TRAVELLING.](moce_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [CHAPTER THREE. RAFTS AND CANOES.](moce_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER FOUR. ANCIENT SHIPS AND NAVIGATORS.](moce_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER FIVE. THE MARINER'S COMPASS—PORTUGUESE
  
  
  DISCOVERIES.
  
  
  * [CHAPTER SIX. BOATS, MODEL-BOAT MAKING, ETCETERA.](moce_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [CHAPTER SEVEN. LIFEBOATS AND LIGHTSHIPS.](moce_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER EIGHT. DOCKS AND SHIPBUILDING.](moce_split_9.html#1_0_9)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER NINE. THE LAUNCH, ETCETERA.](moce_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER TEN. COASTING VESSELS.](moce_split_11.html#1_0_11)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER ELEVEN. VESSELS OF LARGE SIZE.](moce_split_12.html#1_0_12)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER TWELVE. WOODEN AND 