Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 006095549X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Compelling readingshort changed in the end I bought this book hoping to find pictorial information on the early transatlantic steamers, especially Brunel's Great Eatsren. So my initial reaction was one of disapointment when the book arrivedbut then I started reading it, and Mr Fox has managed to write a compelling book, which gives a lively and yet technically interesting account of the history of the 19th Century transatlantic steamships and lines. All in all I enjoyed reading the book throughoutWhere the dispointment co. "Highly readable and very well researched" according to Erinmore. I haven't quite read the entire book yet, and I don't have time right now to write a comprehensive review, but I did want to say that this book is a great read and would be appreciated by anyone with the slightest interest in ships. It is also very impressively researched - Fox's in-depth research puts many so-called specialist historians to shame. I am almost ashamed of the fact that I only paid a dollar for a new copy of this book, which is far less than I've paid for many hist. "A Book Running Out of Steam" according to Fernando Villegas. This is one of those books with a great beginning and a disappointing middle and ending game. Well written and full of details in a number of issues, it also has an uncredible number of holes. All in all, it seems to have been finished in a hurry as if after a leisurely previous writting, in a sudden the editor called the author and remembered him about the deadline.In a book dedicated to transatlantic navigation it is simply unacceptable you does not get a word about France, tha
Bridging the Atlantic Ocean by steamship was a defining, remarkable feat of the era. During the nineteenth century, the roughest but most important ocean passage in the world lay between Britain and the United States. The dynamic evolution of the Atlantic steamer is traced from Brunel's Great Western of 1838 to Cunard's Mauretania of 1907, the greatest steamship ever built.. Over time, Atlantic steamships became the largest, most complex machines yet devised. They created a new transatlantic world of commerce and travel, reconciling former Anglo-American enemies and bringing millions of emigrants who transformed the United States.In Transatlantic, the experience of crossing the Atlantic is re-created in stunning detail from the varied perspectives of first class, steerage, o
Stephen Fox, a freelance historian, is the author of five previous books. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
Still, Fox has fashioned a comprehensive and informative book. From Publishers Weekly Freelance historian Fox chronicles the changes in transatlantic travel from 1820, when sailing ships took three weeks to cross the treacherous North Atlantic, through 1910, when huge steam-driven ocean liners made the passage in less than a week. No aspect of the remarkable transformation from wind to steam power is left unattended. The descriptions of life in steerage will intrigue the many Americans whose ancestors arrived after enduring the harrowing conditions, which, according to Fox, deteriorated noticeably in the 1880s, when the demographics of steerage passengers changed from western Europeans to eastern European