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Steamboats on the Western Rivers
Louis C. HunterBeatrice Jones Hunter
其他書名
An Economic and Technological History
出版Courier Corporation, 1993-01-01
主題Travel / Essays & Travelogues
ISBN04862786389780486278636
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JzLN2GACaIYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development: its construction, equipment and operation; the organization and conduct of steamboat transportation as a business enterprise; the hazards and amenities of shipboard life; steamboat races on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; collisions, explosions and fires; the rise of competition; the ultimate decline, and much more.