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Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (Dover Books on Transportation, Maritime)
by Hunter, Louis C
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0486278638
- ISBN 13
- 9780486278636
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Dover Pubn Inc, (1994), 1994. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, softcover, VG in green and blue pictorial wraps. 684 pp. including index. 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.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71327
- Title
- Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (Dover Books on Transportation, Maritime)
- Author
- Hunter, Louis C
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0486278638
- ISBN 13
- 9780486278636
- Publisher
- Dover Pubn Inc, (1994)
- Place of Publication
- Mineola, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1994
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...