The Great Eastern
A sprawling anticolonial adventure set in the 1850s–1870s in New York, London, Paris, India and the North Atlantic. Captain Nemo is pitted against Captain Ahab, with the real-life engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel caught between them: kidnapped to build Nemo his submarine, then drawn into a fight against the laying of the Transatlantic cable and the colonial powers it would bind.
A Weekly Reads pick, and Howard Rodman's North Atlantic sea adventure. On the Atlas along the cable route.
On the Atlas: the North Atlantic, along the transatlantic cable route →
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