First over the oceans

by Melinda Blau

Presents accounts of three notable ocean the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, Magellan's trip around the world, and the 1838 steamboat race across the Atlantic.

47 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Award-winning journalist Melinda Blau has been researching and writing about relationships and social trends for more than thirty years. With her (lucky) thirteenth book, Consequential Strangers: People Who Don't Seem to Matter...But Really Do, she widens her lens to include the surprisingly vital connections that extend beyond family and close friendsa subject that has taken her into the world of business and marketing, the Internet and social media, health and "place making."
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