Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Definitive account--construction, equipment and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Synopsis
Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.