On the Waters of the USA
Subtitle: Ships and Boats in American Life (Transportation in America)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 16, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780195132274
First sentence: This story begins not with the great ships but with boats, for it was in boats that the very first Americans, the American Indians, established the roots of the nation's tradition of water travel.