The Sea Shall Embrace Them The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic

摘要

David Shaw's The Sea Shall Embrace Them is a narrative of the last Atlantic crossing of the steamship Arctic in 1854. Shaw also depicts a little-known epoch when America challenged Great Britain for commercial supremacy in the trans-Adantic passenger trade, just before the Civil War and westward expansion would focus national energies elsewhere, occasioning a long maritime decline.