An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

Winner, 2016 the John Lyman Book Award, sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History. During Daniel O. Killman’s more than fifty years at sea,

This volume covers the development and decline of the steam engine from the late-18th century to the present day. It is not a history of the steamship, but the