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Although a work of fiction, Ship is based almost entirely on recent and continuing
efforts of archaeologists and historians around the world. While it would be
impossible to thank them all, I wish to acknowledge a very special debt to five of
their colleagues at Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research
in Corpus Christi, Texas:
Donald Keith, Joe Simmons, Denise Lakey, Toni Carrell, and
Jerry Goodale, through their various disciplines and areas of expertise, have
helped me better understand and appreciate the vitality of history and the
subjectivity of its interpretation.

My newfound knowledge of shipbuilding also owes a great deal
to the efforts of the late
John Patrick Sarsfield and a ship he saw finished only in his mind.
His replica of the caravel Niña, built for the Columbus Foundation of St. Thomas, U.S.
Virgin Islands, which I was fortunate enough to see both under construction in Brazil
and fully rigged in Rhode Island, is undoubtedly the most accurate and authentic
vessel of its kind afloat.

I wish to thank
Robert McNulty, of Partners for Livable Places in Washington, D.C., who planted
the seed for this project in 1985 with his infectious
enthusiasm for underwater archaeology, and
Jan Adkins, author, illustrator, and colleague at Rhode Island School of Design, to
whose wisdom, among other things, is owed the fact that this book mercifully
stops at ninety-six pages.

Copyright © 1993 by David Macaulay

All rights reserved. For information about permission
to reproduce selections from this book, write to
Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue
South, New York, New York 10003.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Macaulay, David.
Ship / David Macaulay.
p. cm.
Summary: Describes wooden ships or caravels of the fifteenth
century and follows archaeologists as they uncover a lost caravel in
the Caribbean Sea.
ISBN 0-395-52439-3 PA 0-395-74518-7
1. Caravels—History—Juvenile literature. 2. Caravels—Caribbean
Area—History—Juvenile literature. 3. Underwater archaeology—
Caribbean Sea—Juvenile literature. 4. Shipwrecks—Caribbean Sea—
Juvenile literature. 5. Caribbean Sea—Antiquities—Juvenile
literature. [1. Caravels—History. 2. Ships—History.
3. Underwater archaeology. 4. Shipwrecks. 5. Caribbean Sea—
Antiquities.] I. Title.
VM311.C27M33 1993 92-1346
387.2'l-dc20 CIP
   AC

Manufactured in China
SCP 10 9 8 7

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