A Thread Across the Ocean
Subtitle: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: July 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780060524463
Subjects: Telecommunications; Transatlantic cables; Technology; Telegraph Engineering; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Telegraph; Modern - 19th Century; History / General; Great Britain; United States; Atlantic; Cables, Submarine; History
First sentence: THOMAS NIGHTINGALE HAD PROSPERED in South Carolina almost from the day he had arrived as a young man from his native Yorkshire in the 1720s.