America's contest with Cunard in the age of sail and steam.
Atlantic Kingdom pays tribute to the Americans who challenged Cunard, the shipping company that held a monopoly on North Atlantic trade routes in the nineteenth century. These titans of the Atlantic left behind them a wreckage of human lives, lost ships, and squandered fortunes in their failed bids for supremacy of the seas.
Author: John A. Butler
39 black and white prints
6 maps
304 pages
March 2002
230 x 152 mm
Hardback
