BR 1-18 The Story of Ships

Crossing the water(P.3)




I was read this book first time. Thousands of years ago, there were no ships or boats. If you were born on one side of a river, that's where you stayed. But people dreamed of crassing rivers and seas. People had noticed logs that floated on water. But they didn't do anything with them until a brave man tried to balance on one. To his delight, he could paddle across the river. Steering the log wasn't easy... but falling off was. Some people tied logs together to make a raft. Rafts could carry goods as well as people, but they were very hard to move along. One day, someone had a fantastic idea. "Why don't we cut a log in half and hollow it out?" he said to his tribe. They thought he was crazy but they helped anyway. The men used animal horns to hollow out the wood. To make the work easier, they lit a fire in the log to burn out the middle. It was the world7s first boat. in some parts of the world, people began to make boats from animal skins. First, they sewed the skins together. Then they made a frame from thin pieces of wood. Finally, they stretched the skins over the frame and covered them with tar to keep the water out.


I was read this book first time. Thousands of years ago, peoples didn't have ships. this is a very busy. I want to read many books after this.

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Reference

Bingham Jane. (2004).The Story of Ships. London: Usborne.