The Ocean Railway: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships by Stephen Fox, Stephen Fox
The Ocean Railway: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships
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Stephen Fox, Stephen Fox
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The Ocean Railway: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships

Stephen Fox, Stephen Fox

560 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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An epic social history of steamship travel from the nineteenth century to the Lusitania, the Mauretania and the Titanic. The great transatlantic steamships became emblems of an age, of a Victorian audacity of spirit-cathedrals to man's harnessing ...

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