Boats: Fast & Slow - Iris Volant, Jarom Vogel Gamcha 229 x 210 mm

229 x 210 mm

Best suits 7+ year olds

Written by horticulturalist Riz Reyes and fully illustrated by Sara Boccaccini Meadows

full of gentle wonder and joy

Wonderfully soft mulesing-free merino wool ribbed headbandThese headbands are hand knitted and finished by women employed by the KOCO (knit one change one) initiative in rural southern India

Boats: Fast & Slow - Iris Volant, Jarom Vogel Gamcha 229 x 210 mmFrom the woven rafts of ancient Mesopotamia to 17th century Dutch merchant ships, and onwards to todays modern sailing hydrofoils, trace the fascinating story of boats and their place in our culture. The history of boats is intertwined with our own since the earliest times, humans have found ways to cross the bodies of water that cut them off from further exploration and expansion. Young readers can delve into the thousands of years of boat making