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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable Paperback - 2003
by John Steele Gordon
Shedding fascinating new light on an American saga, Gordon explores the laying of the transatlantic cable in 1866--one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century.
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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.
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- Title A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
- Author John Steele Gordon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-07-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780060524463 / 0060524464
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.79 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.01 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Transatlantic cables - History, Telegraph - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003040743
- Dewey Decimal Code 384.15
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- New York Times, 07/27/2003, Page 16
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