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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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