ACW boat picture book

[corn-fed-erate]

Looking for title suggestions for a book that would have ironclads, blockade runners, tin and cotton clads, and general gun boats in it from both sides. Pictures, histories, drawings. I know it would be a reference book that kids usually would not like. But, Jason does not have a normal interest in boats. He is fascinated by them and I am looking for the very best book we can get him for Christmas.

Thanks
Jimmy

John, your book ready by Christmas? Just checking....waiting.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

hmm.... It's not perfect (what is?) but one he might enjoy that I think is available (used) at a decent price: Tony Gibbons' Warships and Naval Battles of the Civil War. The pictures will look familiar to those who've seen the Osprey books or the recent Ships of the Civil War by Kevin Dougherty; those have images recycled from Gibbons. The book is not without errors, but on the whole is better than many.

 

[rebelatsea]

hmm.... It's not perfect (what is?) but one he might enjoy that I think is available (used) at a decent price: Tony Gibbons' Warships and Naval Battles of the Civil War. The pictures will look familiar to those who've seen the Osprey books or the recent Ships of the Civil War by Kevin Dougherty; those have images recycled from Gibbons. The book is not without errors, but on the whole is better than many.

I would agree with that Mark.

 

[rebelatsea]

Looking for title suggestions for a book that would have ironclads, blockade runners, tin and cotton clads, and general gun boats in it from both sides. Pictures, histories, drawings. I know it would be a reference book that kids usually would not like. But, Jason does not have a normal interest in boats. He is fascinated by them and I am looking for the very best book we can get him for Christmas.

Thanks
Jimmy

John, your book ready by Christmas? Just checking....waiting.

Jimmy ,I wish ! Just revised into version 10 as there have been so many changes due to new information since the summer.

 

[corn-fed-erate]

Here is what he got.

John he loves this train. Mark, we went with the Dougherty book because it was relatively cheap and easy to get. He loves them both.

 

[AndyHall]

That is fantastic!

Here's something for him to aspire to:

 

[rebelatsea]

That is fantastic!

Here's something for him to aspire to:

I love the "American" 4 -4- 0 locomotives.