Cableships and Submarine Cables

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Adlard Coles Limited, London.

BINDING
Grey boards with gilt lettering.

BOOK CONDITION
Good, just a little general shelf wear. Previous owners name tippexed out on endpaper. Printed pages and illustrations largely clean and little marked.

DUST JACKET
Some creasing and wear around edges. Gloss cover has faint scratching. price clipped.

EDITION
First edition 1968.

DESCRIPTION
Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of the vessels described. Two maps of worldwide cable routes, one of which folds out. Two pages of coloured house flags of cable laying companies. 416 pp, 8vo

SYNOPSIS
A history of the cable laying companies and their vessels which connected the world with submarine communications cables.