Steamboats on the Western Rivers

ISBN: 9780486278636

出版社: Dover Pubns

出版年: 1994-1

页数: 704

定价: $ 28.19

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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.