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Steamboats: Icons of America's Rivers
by Sara Wright
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0747811415
- ISBN 13
- 9780747811411
- Seller
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Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Shire Books, 2013. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2013 Shire Books softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Paddlewheel riverboat, showboat, sternwheeler, steamboat: call it what you will, but the steamboat revolutionized travel in the 1800s, an era in which young boys dreamed of becoming river pilots and Mark Twain forever memorialized the "Delta Queens" that travelled up and down the Mississippi River. Steamboat enthusiast Sara Wright provides a background into the historical events that made the era perfectly ripe for the development of the steamboat industry in America in this colorful history. Steamboats will look at the people who played key roles in the development of the steam engine and paddle boats, including the important part played by the many African Americans who worked the river. Wright also examines the technology of these floating mansions, from firebaskets and cannons, to radars and whistles, to steam pressure gauges and other innovations.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 695
- Title
- Steamboats: Icons of America's Rivers
- Author
- Sara Wright
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0747811415
- ISBN 13
- 9780747811411
- Publisher
- Shire Books
- Place of Publication
- Midland House Great Britain
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Paddlewheel Riverboat, Showboats, Mississippi River,
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
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