Two short novels of ships and the sea. In the first, a passenger aboard the giant steamship Great Eastern crosses from Liverpool to New York and stumbles into a quarrel of honour between a jealous captain and the brutal Harry Drake. In the second, a Glasgow steamer runs the Union blockade into Charleston during the American Civil War.
Verne at his most nautical, built around a real ship he himself sailed on and a real wartime trade. Download the free EPUB.