|
|
Buying Choices/Price Compare
Sea_boats presents the Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet by David C. Holly, ISBN 0870334557 offered by Wal-mart.com Usa, Lc. To find the most up-to-date price for Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet by David C. Holly, ISBN 0870334557, click on the link above- you may find that Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet is on-sale for a lower price. Also check out the Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC coupon code & Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC deals page for possible special deals and discounts on Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet by David C. Holly, ISBN 0870334557 and/or other related products. Our goal is to help you find a cheap price for Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet By David C. Holy, Isbn 0870334557!
|
Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet by David C. Holly, ISBN 0870334557 Summary
Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet
Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet Full Description
In eight engaging chapters, this book portrays the steamboat era (1813-1963) on the Chesapeake, which matched in glamour and excitement the steamboats' history on the Mississippi. The book begins with the building of the first steamboat on the Bay in the shadow of the bitter struggle between Stevens, Livingston, Fulton, and Latrobe, among others, over monopoly on the Delaware and Chesapeake. Some of the accepted history on the origin of the first Bay steamboat is called into question. The chapters continue with stories of the genius of early engine builders, the legends arising from dramatic steamboat disasters, spirited adventures of the Civil War (including the mystery of the "French lady spy"), the romance of steamboat excursions and resorts, the personalities of many steamboats and their masters, the Pennsylvania Railroad's near achievement of monopoly on the Bay, and the denouement when trucks and automobiles eclipsed the role of the steamboat. 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".
Products Related to Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet
A Sample of Other Products
Map Prints
Framed Maps
|
Boat promotions, deals, coupons, specials, sale, & bargains