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"Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, they were a fact of life. The United States was remote from Europe, the center of world affairs, and communication was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic. Instant contact seemed as unlikely then as walking on the moon did in the 1950s.".
"The Civil War had barely ended, however, when the Old and New Worlds had been united by the successful laying of a telegraph cable that spanned the Atlantic in 1866. A Thread Across the Ocean chronicles this extraordinary achievement, one of the greatest engineering feats of that century - and perhaps of all time."--BOOK JACKET.
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A Thread Across the Ocean
August 2003, Books on Tape
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
July 1, 2003, Harper Perennial
in English
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
July 1, 2003, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
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A thread across the ocean: the heroic story of the transatlantic cable
2002, Simon & Schuster
in English
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A thread across the ocean: the heroic story of the transatlantic cable
2002, Walker & Co.
in English
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
June 1, 2002, Walker & Company
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"THOMAS NIGHTINGALE HAD PROSPERED in South Carolina almost from the day he had arrived as a young man from his native Yorkshire in the 1720s."
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