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O'Dell,
Scott
THE 290
Boston : Houghton Mifflin,
1976.
IL 5+
ISBN 0395247373
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of Liverpool is a shipbuilding firm in London. During the Civil War, there
were naval battles that were fought with ships built in Europe. The 290,
aka Alabama, was one such ship. A young Southerner who had been sent to
London by his father, a slave trader, is apprenticed to Mr. Bromley, the
290's designer. This story is about Jim Lynne's trip on the 290's maiden
voyage, under Raphael Semmes, a real Civil War captain. For an accurate
tale of life on the sea and the differing attitudes of men on the Confederate
side, read "The 290" by Scott O'Dell. |
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SUBJECTS:
Alabama (Ship) -- Juvenile fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations
--Juvenile fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. |
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