The Great Eastern

By Howard A. Rodman

Book Overview

"My favorite read of the year..."--Keegan-Michael Key, Top Ten Picks, New York Times

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161219785X
• ISBN13: 9781612197852
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"