Making a ship in a bottle is a bonkers but incredibly rewarding pastime and with this guide you will be able to construct your own ship on a bottle and place it in pride of place on a mantle piece.

A valiant mouse sets sail in her ship in a bottle to seek a better life in this gentle allegory about refugees and immigration. All Mouse wants to do is eat gingersnaps, lie in the sun, and enjoy her ship in a bottle. All Cat wants to do is eat Mouse. This is a problem. So one day, Mouse sets off in her ship in a bottle in search of a new home. But the great big world is a scary place for one small mouse. As she sails downriver, she faces grabby seagulls, selfish rabbits, and stormy waters before finally finding refuge in a park on the shores of an enormous city, where she is welcomed by friends of all shapes and sizes. Readers will cheer Mouse's quiet perseverance on her epic journey as she seeks a tiny spot to call her own.

A fascinating and detailed guide to all the secrets of building and placing ships in bottles, supported with an abundance of clear diagrams and photos. Contents Include : The Bottle; Uses of a Drawing; Preparing the Hull; Deck Fittings; Making the Masts; Deckhouses and Lifeboats; The Rigging; Laying Out the Sails; Finishing the Model; A Ship in a Globe.

Five projects explained clearly, step-by-step through drawings and black-and-white and color photographs. Woven into the instructions is historical background that gives the ships and bottles greater interest and authenticity. The modeler is led slowly through the steps to create this legendary art form.

In an era when sea voyages lasted months and even years, off-watch sailormen occupied themselves creating bits of nautical art from whatever raw material came to hand -- wood, rope, yarn, and of course, on whaling ships, the teeth and bones of whales and walrus. It is not surprising then that an empty bottle might have piqued the imagination of some long-gone salt and led him to devise the way of displaying miniature ships described in this book.

This book reveal the secrets of creating ships in bottles. You will find an answer to that torturing question "How?" The book tells you about various methods of fitting ship into bottle, gives you recommendations about making small details of a ship model and reveals the secrets of puzzled bottle stoppers. A great number of pictures and illustrations will help you to get a deeper understanding of the process. This book will be interesting for both beginners and experienced masters and everybody will find something interesting in it.