Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha: Challenge and Opportunity in a Global Trade

by Godfrey Helen

In Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha, Helen Godfrey traces the connections between submarine telegraphy and the peoples of Singapore and Sarawak (Borneo) who supplied 'gutta percha', the latex insulating the world network of undersea telegraph cables. The book examines the complex inter-relationships linking metropolitan and local environments in a trade once described as a matter of interest to the whole civilized world. Using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004344330
• ISBN13: 9789004344334
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"