Robert Fulton and the Steamboat (Landmark Books, Number 45).

New York:: Random House, 1954.. Young Readers of America edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with title and series device printed on the front cover; the top edge tint is blue-ish; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Index. Landmark endpaper style with two-color scenes. Description: Illustrated by Lee Ames. This is Number 45 in the Landmark series. The Landmark series presents historic and biographical books for young readers, designed to hold the attention as well as to inform. Lives of outstanding people and topics of interest in American and world history are presented in story form with illustrations. ''One August day in 1807 people who lived along the shores of the Hudson River saw a strange craft making its way slowly upstream. This was the Clermont, the first commercially successful steamboat in the world. Aboard her was Robert Fulton, the American who had at last harnessed the power of steam to machinery that would one day drive ships across oceans. This is the story of a remarkable young inventor who enabled a new era in American history.'' Ralph Nading Hill is the author of another in the Landmark series -- The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever.