How They Got Over
Subtitle: African Americans and the Call of the Sea
Contributors: Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Illustrator)
Publisher: Amistad
Published: December 24, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780060289928
Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction; Sailors; Children: Grades 3-4; Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 People & Places; People & Places - United States - African-American; Juvenile literature; Divers; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Juvenile Nonfiction / Ethnic / African-American; Biography; United States; African Americans
First sentence: The pirates were chasing him, their boat not far behind his, as he sailed out into the ocean.