Armstrong Sperry: 3 books
John Paul Jones
The Pirate Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
A classic biography of John Paul Jones for young readers in a new, illustrated edition. Called a pirate by the British and a patriot by the Americans, John Paul Jones was a brilliant sea captain, a true American hero, and the father of the U.S. Navy. With this classic biography for young readers by...
All Sail Set
A Romance of the Flying Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Who can love the spread of canvas and the bend of the oak and not thrill to the names of the great clippers built by Donald McKay? Great Republic, Sovereign of the Seas, Lightening, Star of the Empire, and Westward Ho — these names ring from an era when the windships were the queens of the ocean and...
by Armstrong Sperry
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Maftu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. So, though he was the son of the Great Chief of Hikueru, a race of Polynesians who worshipped courage, and he was named Stout Heart, he...