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2) Steamboats
Author
Series
Shire library volume no. 681
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xii, 719 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington's presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation's largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving Ranaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new...
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