A hundred years ago it was impossible to forecast with any accuracy how long a journey might take to accomplish, and the traveller by land or sea was liable to

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

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

In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Traf