Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
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Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A Thread Across the Ocean is one of those enjoyably quirky, packed-to-the-gills little histories squeezed into only a couple of hundred pages. It's a story of business entrepreneurship, brilliantly innovative engineering, courageous seafaring, and individual passion." - MSNBC Summer Book Pick
"...the miracles of technology don't just happen at some eureka moment but require patience, persistence, ambition and luck....[an] engaging account." - Wall Street Journal
"We should not be surprised that this book is so joyously readable....a sprightly and oddly engrossing mix of technological, financial, and human history." - Chicago Sun-Times
" {Steele Gordon} proves adept at explaining technological and scientific matters in terms the lay reader can grasp, as well as the complex financial transactions necessary as Field and his colleagues sought to keep their stupendous dream alive." - Washington Post
"...celebrates the vision and perseverance of the men who -- a century before the Internet was conceived -- created the first information highway underwater." - BookPage
"...the miracles of technology don't just happen at some eureka moment but require patience, persistence, ambition and luck....[an] engaging account." - Wall Street Journal
"We should not be surprised that this book is so joyously readable....a sprightly and oddly engrossing mix of technological, financial, and human history." - Chicago Sun-Times
" {Steele Gordon} proves adept at explaining technological and scientific matters in terms the lay reader can grasp, as well as the complex financial transactions necessary as Field and his colleagues sought to keep their stupendous dream alive." - Washington Post
"...celebrates the vision and perseverance of the men who -- a century before the Internet was conceived -- created the first information highway underwater." - BookPage
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Pub date:
2003-07-01
Length:
272 pages
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