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Books with author Edwin Tunis

  • Wheels A Pictorial History

    Edwin Tunis

    Textbook Binding (The World Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 1955)
    history of wheels and uses in America.
  • Wheels;: A pictorial history,

    Edwin Tunis

    Hardcover (World Pub. Co, Jan. 1, 1955)
    Information about the basic evolution and need for wheels. Highly interesting for those that want to know the history of wheels.
  • The Tavern At The Ferry

    Edwin. Tunis, Edwin Tunis

    Unknown Binding (Crowell, March 15, 1973)
    None
  • Oars, Sails, and Steam: A Picture Book of Ships

    Edwin Tunis

    Hardcover (Sagebrush Education Resources, Sept. 16, 2002)
    The evolution of shipbuilding reflects the growth of civilization, and in Oars, Sails and Steam, Edwin Tunis has produced a beautifully illustrated and skillfully written history of water transport from the dugout to the aircraft carrier. He presents the most interesting and important types of boats and ships in chronological order, revealing each advance that made navigation easier, faster, and more efficient. Every page in this delightful book becomes a new adventure in the story of humanity's progress on traveling across the seas. The Egyptian sailboats that plied the waters of the Nile in 4700 b.c. give way to Phoenician warboats, Greek war galleys and Roman triremes, which in turn are surpassed by Norse long ships, Mediterranean carracks, Elizabethan galleons, and British East Indiaman. The Steam Age is represented by John Fitch's 1787 Delaware River steamboat; the 1807 Clermont, which made five miles per hour against the current of the Hudson; and the Curaçao, which in 1827 became the first ship to cross the Atlantic almost entirely under steam power. Graceful clipper ships, profitable whaling barks, reliable tramp steamers, opulent steam liners, and deadly warships, from destroyers to submarines, round out Tunis's illustrated history.In addition to his fine drawings of the vessels, Tunis includes a glossary of seagoing terms and detailed diagrams that take readers below decks, up in the rigging, and alongside the gunners of the U.S.S. Raleigh. Remarkable for its clarity and accuracy, Oars, Sails and Steam, first published in 1952, is a treasury for all those who are sailors at heart.
  • Weapons

    Edwin Tunis

    Hardcover (William Collins Pub, Sept. 15, 1972)
    None
  • Shaw's Fortune: The picture story of a colonial plantation

    Edwin Tunis

    Unknown Binding (American Printing House for the Blind, March 15, 1973)
    None
  • WHEELS: A PICTORIAL HISTORY.

    Edwin: Tunis, Edwin Tunis

    Hardcover (World Publishing, Jan. 1, 1955)
    None
  • Frontier Living

    Edward Tunis

    Hardcover (The World Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 1961)
    None
  • Wheels : a pictorial history

    Edwin Tunis

    Unknown Binding (Crowell, Feb. 23, 1977)
    History of how the wheel was used.
  • Shaw's Fortune: The Picture Story of a Colonial Plantation

    Edwin Tunis

    Hardcover (World Publishing Co., March 15, 1966)
    None
  • Colonial Living

    Edwin Tunis

    Hardcover (The World Publishing Company, March 15, 1959)
    Hardcover book in excellent condition: Book describes the ways of pioneer life in North America the Colonial years about 1564 to 1770. Wonderful illustrations: First Edition-1957: