The Great Eastern by Rodman, Howard A.

The Great Eastern (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644285541)

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The Great Eastern by Rodman, Howard A.

The Great Eastern

$20.00
The Great Eastern by Rodman, Howard A.

The Great Eastern

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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From the shipyards of London to the ports of New York, from the undersea abyss to the halls of empire, The Great Eastern is a sweeping tale of invention, rebellion, and the war between creation and destruction.

A vast iron ship. Two legendary captains. A battle for the soul of an age.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the world stood on the brink of transformation. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the audacious engineer, dares to build the largest vessel ever conceived--the Great Eastern, a ship so immense it might stitch continents together with telegraphic wire. But beneath the waves lurks Captain Nemo, haunted genius of the submarine Nautilus, sworn enemy of empire and progress alike. When Nemo discovers Brunel's plans, he vows to destroy both the ship and the world it represents.

Into this collision of titans steps another ghost of literature and legend: Captain Ahab, dragged from his watery grave, driven by obsession and vengeance, and drawn inexorably into the struggle between Brunel's vision and Nemo's rage.

At once a thrilling sea adventure and a subversive reimagining of classic myth, Howard A. Rodman's audacious novel resurrects larger-than-life characters to tell a story that is as strange and wondrous as the century that gave birth to them.

Author: Howard A. Rodman
ISBN-10: 1644285541
ISBN-13: 9781644285541
Publisher: Rare Bird Books
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
By Howard A. Rodman
By Howard A. Rodman
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Howard A. Rodman is a screenwriter, novelist, and essayist whose work often explores the interplay of politics, history, and art. A past president of the Writers Guild of America West and an award-winning professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Rodman has written films for directors such as Steven Soderbergh and Volker Schlöndorff. His fiction has been praised for its formal daring, rich imagination, and deep engagement with history. Destiny Express is his acclaimed debut novel, first published by Atheneum in 1990 and celebrated for its visionary blending of fact and invention. His novel The Great Eastern has been described as "a sprawling, lavish anticolonial adventure novel, set in the 1850s-1870s in New York, London, Paris, India, and the North Atlantic."

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