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Beginning with his account of a wild ride across a stormy Lake Michigan, Karl Zimmermann takes young readers aboard lakers, ferries, and paddle-wheelers for a look at steamboats past and present. He traces the development of steamboats from the birth of the Age of Steam in England and America's first steamboat, which crossed the Delaware River in 1787. Filled with fascinating facts and stunning ph... More

Beginning with his account of a wild ride across a stormy Lake Michigan, Karl Zimmermann takes young readers aboard lakers, ferries, and paddle-wheelers for a look at steamboats past and present. He traces the development of steamboats from the birth of the Age of Steam in England and America's first steamboat, which crossed the Delaware River in 1787. Filled with fascinating facts and stunning photographs of steamboats from North America to Europe, this book will open a window on a world of wheelhouses and engine rooms, propellers and paddle wheels, that springs to life when the captain rings down "full ahead!"

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