Chesapeake Steamboats

Chesapeake Steamboats
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Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015032254172
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Book Synopsis Chesapeake Steamboats by : David C. Holly

Download or read book Chesapeake Steamboats written by David C. Holly and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appendix details the workings of early steamboat engines. Other appendices provide data on steamboats discussed in the text and maps of the region. The narratives extend the history of the era from that included in other books on the topic. The book, above all, is an enthusiastic, nostalgic, and thoroughly readable exposition of a bygone era and a "vanished fleet."


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