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Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships
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Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships
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Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships

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  • Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships available on November 23 2014 from Amazon for $9.99
  • ISBN bar code 9780060195953 ξ3 registered November 23 2014
  • ISBN bar code 9780060195953 ξ1 registered June 05 2012
  • ISBN bar code 9780060195953 ξ2 registered April 12 2012
  • Product category is Book
  • Manufacturered by Harper 


     

     

     

     
 

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    ^  (2012). Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships  (revised Oct 2013)
    ^  (2012). Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships, HarperCollins.  (revised Apr 2012)
    ^  (2003). Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships, Harper. Amazon.  (revised Nov 2014)

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This new book is a massive history of American and British steamship travel on the North Atlantic, covering the period between 1820 and 1910. It focuses on the changing styles and engineering advancements that were made in these two countries over the decades, as well as on the powerful men whose rivalries drove the industry forward. The book highlights the entrepreneurs who built the ocean liner companies, but gives equal insight into the engineering specialists who made the rapid advancement in steamship ..
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Perhaps the most interesting tidbit in TRANSATLANTIC, a book full of great tidbits, is that none of the great passenger liners celebrated in its pages are afloat today. Those that are in existence are rusting away quietly at the bottom of the North Atlantic --- the Titanic being the most renowned of the wrecks, but hardly alone. None of the others are left, being victims of time or of sinking or of the knacker's yard. The genius of historical preservation stretches back to the age of sail --- USS Constituti..
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As the hours tick away on your transatlantic flight, noisy, cramped, and boring, you may want to remember the way they used to do it, by steam. Charles Dickens took one of the new-fangled Cunard steamers from England to Boston in 1842, and wrote a funny, famous article about how it was noisy, cramped, and boring. It was bad enough that on the return trip, he took the slow traditional sailing packet. Dickens's account is evaluated in _Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic S..
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