Paddle Steamers: An Illustrated History of Steamboats on the Mississippi and Its Tributaries

by Ken Watson

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393018652
• ISBN13: 9780393018653
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful primmer on paddle steamers

Clearly written and well illustrated with drawings and photographs, this book is a lovely introduction to the riverboat era on the Mississippi. I was completely absorbed by the descriptions of the boats, the explainations of how they worked, and what this by-gone life was like. It seemed to me that this would be appropriate for older children as well as adults.