The Sway of the Grand Saloon

by John Malcolm Brinnin

1971 599 pages eng

**The Glorious Age** of passenger ships has ended. Here, splendors and miseries together, is the whole marvelous story. It begins on a January morning in 1818 when, frosted with snow, a creaking little New York packet ship starts for Liverpool with six passengers. It ends, mid-ocean, on a September …