The Great Eastern: a novel

✍ Scribed by Great Eastern (Steamship);Brunel, Isambard Kingdom;Rodman, Howard A

• Publisher: Melville House
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 323 KB
• Edition: First Melville House printing
• Category: Fiction
• City: Great Britain.
• ISBN: 1612197868

✦ Synopsis

A dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by both characters are revealed in cliffhanger fashion.
A sprawling adventure pitting two of literature's most iconic anti-heroes against each other: Captain Nemo and Captain Ahab. Caught between them: real-life British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of the century's greatest ship, The Great Eastern. But when he's kidnapped by Nemo to help design a submarine with which to fight the laying of the Translatlantic cable - linking the two colonialist forces Nemo hates, England and the US - Brunel finds himself going up against his own ship, and the strange man hired to protect it, Captain Ahab, in a battle for the soul of the 19th century.

✦ Subjects

Great Britain