The Thea Sisters are five fun, lively students at Mouseford Academy on Whale Island, who want to be real, live journalists, just like their hero, Thea Stilton. Between classes, friendships, crushes, and some bizarre mysteries to solve, they find life to be a never-ending adventure! Colette, Violet, Pamela, Nicky, and Paulina are working on a historical restoration when they learn about an ancient Viking vessel that sank off the shore of Whale Island. Rumor has it that the ship is full of treasure, and what's worse, some shadowy figure is plotting to steal it! If Mouseford's best investigative journalists can't crack this case, Whale Island will lose one of its most important cultural artifacts before it's even found.

Get ready for more exciting adventures with Colette, Violet, Pamela, Nicky, and Paulina on Whale Island! In The Treasure of the Viking Ship, the team investigates an ancient archeological discovery, then in Catching the Giant Wave the island is threatened by a freak accident of nature!

The Thea Sisters - Pamela, Colette, Violet, Paulina, and Nicky - are five fun, lively students at Mouseford Academy on Whale Island, who, inspired by famous journalist Thea Stilton, want to be real, live journalists. Between classes and friendships, love and small fits of jealousy, they find life at the Academy to be a never-ending Adventure! Join the Thea Sisters for a thrilling school year at Mouseford Academy as cosmetics queen and industrialist Vissia De Vissen enrolls Vic and Vanilla, her two children, at the school. At the same time, a rouge orca is causing chaos on the shores of the island. Are the two events connected? Plus, Election Day draws near as the campaign trail turns competitive. Can Vanilla cheat her way into the presidency of the Lizard Club or can the Thea Sisters win fair and square? And, Whale Island's mysterious Viking ancestry has been uncovered. Does a legendary treasure come with it? Vanilla and her mom, Vissia, will stop at nothing to find out!

An introduction to nautical archeology, focusing on social, cultural, and political history as exposed by shipwrecks from ancient times to the present.

Recreates 11 stories of the ancient world and describes the diverse methods archaeologists used to piece together these stories. Includes suggested projects relating to each discovery.

Discusses buried treasures along the Atlantic coast, describing the types of treasures and attempts to retreive them

Describes a variety of underwater expeditions undertaken by archaeologists, scientists, and fortune hunters seeking to uncover the secrets of past civilizations, sunken treasure ships, and the existence of mysterious water creatures.

Collecting 3 Graphic Novels in 1! The Thea Sisters—Pamela, Colette, Violet, Paulina, and Nicky—are five fun, lively students at Mouseford Academy on Whale Island, who, inspired by famous journalist Thea Stilton, want to be real, live journalists. Between classes and friendships, love and small fits of jealousy, they find life at the Academy to be a never-ending Adventure! Join the Thea Sisters for a thrilling school year at Mouseford Academy as cosmetics queen and industrialist Vissia De Vissen enrolls Vic and Vanilla, her two children, at the school. At the same time, a rouge orca is causing chaos on the shores of the island. Are the two events connected? Plus, Election Day draws near as the campaign trail turns competitive. Can Vanilla cheat her way into the presidency of the Lizard Club or can the Thea Sisters win fair and square? And, Whale Island’s mysterious Viking ancestry has been uncovered. Does a legendary treasure come with it? Vanilla and her mom, Vissia, will stop at nothing to find out!

Describes how archeological discoveries have changed the views of civilizations such as ancient Egypt, Troy, the Aztecs, Easter Island, and the Etruscans

Featuring seven hundred entries on more than 170 subjects, this comprehensive guide to collectables on both sides of the Atlantic combs the museums and private collections of Europe and the U.S. for stunning images.

The Pirate Cats travel to the 18th Century to do what they do best... be pirates! So they steal an old ship sailing on the Indian Ocean to pillage the East India Company's merchant ships! It's up to Geronimo Stilton to travel through time, become a sailor, and stop the cats from changing history forever! Will Geronimo get his sea legs in time to save the day?

Roman triremes of the Mediterranean. The treasure fleet of the Spanish Main. Great ocean liners of the Atlantic. Stories of disasters at sea fire the imagination as little else can, whether the subject is a historical wreck - the Titanic or the Bismark - or the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship. Shipwrecks also make for a new and very different understanding of world history. A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks explores the ages-long, immensely hazardous, persistently romantic, and still-ongoing process of moving people and goods across far-flung maritime worlds. Telling the stories of ships and the people who made and sailed them, from the earliest ancient-Nile craft to the Exxon Valdez, A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks argues that the gradual integration of localized and separate maritime regions into fewer, larger, and more interdependent regions offers a unique window on world history. Stewart Gordon draws a number of provocative conclusions from his study, among them that the European "Age of Exploration" as a singular event is simply a myth - many cultures, east and west, explored far-flung maritime worlds over the millennia - and that technologies of shipbuilding and navigation have been among the main drivers of science and technology throughout history. Finally, A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks shows in a series of compelling narratives that the development of institutions and technologies that made terrifying oceans familiar, and turned unknown seas into sea-lanes, profoundly matters in our modern world.

The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.