Perils of the Atlantic
Subtitle: Steamship Disasters, 1850 to the Present
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: June 9, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780393041552
First sentence: The story of the development of transatlantic steam navigation remains one of the most glorious chapters in the history of humankind's application of mechanical power to the solution of transportation problems.