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Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, 1994
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- Title
- Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (Dover Maritime)
- Author
- Louis C. Hunter
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486278638
- ISBN 13
- 9780486278636
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 1.61 pounds
Definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development: its construction, equipment and operation; the organization and conduct of steamboat transportation as a business enterprise; the hazards and amenities of shipboard life; steamboat races on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; collisions, explosions and fires; the rise of competition; the ultimate decline, and much more.
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Synopsis
A good reprint on non-acidic paper (holders of the original take note) of the Harvard University Press edition of 1949. Solid history of the carrier that helped eclipse canal boats and suffered their fate when rails were laid. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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