PDF Books in Ships & Shipbuilding Transportation
Boat-Building and Boating
by Daniel Carter BeardBoat Building and Boating is a do it yourself kind of guide book on the art of boat building, written by Daniel Carter Beard, an American social reformer and the founder of "Boy Scouts of America". As an illustrator, he has worked in many of the Mark Twain books like Following the Equator, The American Claimant and A Connecticut Yankee in King A..
Ancient and Modern Ships
by George C. V. HolmesAncient and Modern ships is a historic exploration of ship building written by George C. V. Holmes. The author mentions in the preface that indeed it was difficult to refer the old writings of ship building as they were inaccurate and provided meager details. Even the writings based on the witness of classical ships which survived only provided ..