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In a novel chronicling the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, American engineer Chester Ludlow, his wife Franny, journalist Jack Trace, and musician Katerina Lindt and her husband, Joachim, become caught up in the excitement of the project.
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| Summary: | In a novel chronicling the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, American engineer Chester Ludlow, his wife Franny, journalist Jack Trace, and musician Katerina Lindt and her husband, Joachim, become caught up in the excitement of the project. |
| Physical Description: | XII, 593 S. |
| ISBN: | 0312300824 |
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1S1
JOHN GRIESEMER
HUTCHINSON
LONDON
PROLOGUE: The Isle of Dogs (London, November 1857) 1
BOOK ONE
OTIS LUDLOW S JOURNAL (IRELAND, 1866) 29
Chapter I At the Theater 33
New York, December 1857
Checking the House-lfa Actress and the Engineer—A
New Kind of Show—Secret Selves
Chapter II Under the Thames 53
London, December 1857
A Launch at Last—A New Invention Overhead
Chapter m At Willing Mind 63
Maine, January 1858
vii
viii CONTENTS
Betty s Walk-ChesterPrepares-Betty sRock-TheAr-
rival-Franny Sees a Guest—Supper and What Went
Before—Rehearsing—Otis Enters—Franny Decides—De-
parture and Approach
Chapter IV An Explosion 89
London, Spring 1858
A Disastrous Maiden Voyage
Chapter V The Phantasmagorium Show 99
London, Spring 1858
Du laid Ich-A Surgeon of Everything -Success at
the Bardolph-A Meeting at the Bardolph
Chapter VI Back at Willing Mind 129
Maine, Spring 1858
A Ritual Interrupted—Without a Compass—Tiny
Lights-A Letter from London- We Do See Things-
The Novitiates—Another Letter from London
Chapter VII The Great Stink 151
London, Spring 1858
The News Hole—The Running Mm—Conflicting The-
ories—A Matter of Grit and Wit—Stations of the
Cross-TheName Stuck-Enlarged-Sail On!
Chapter Vm The Other Worlds 185
Maine, Spring 1858
The Spirit Room—Something Happens
Chapter IX Assignations and Encounters 193
London, Spring 1858
Katerina Goes-Spude on Himsejf-Places, Hease-
Sight Unseen
Chapter X Between America and the Infinite 209
Maine, Spring 1858
The Trail of Clarity-The Spiritscope and the Bar
Fight
CONTENTS IX
Chapter XI Final Preparations
London and Plymouth, Spring 1858
On the Pier
Chapter XII Willing Mind Is Empty
Maine, Spring 1858
Willing Mind Is Empty
BOOK TWO
Ons LUDLOW S JOURNAL (IRELAND, 1866) 243
Chapter Xm The Expedition 247
England and the Atlantic Ocean, June 1858
Irritants-The Speech-June 10, 1858-Trace Thinks
He Sees Something—Swept Away—The Storm—The In-
capacitated and a Job for Frau Lindt—Looking for a
Sail-Trace Ahfi-Breaks
Chapter XTV We Landed Here in the Woods 301
England and the Atlantic Ocean, July-August
Maddy Above the Mezzanine—The Board Meets—Over
and Under London- We Landed Here in the Woods
Chapter XV Waking a Nation 329
New York and North America, August 1858
Dark New World-Trace s Message-The Center of the
Universe—Frau Lindt s Case—New York Lights Up the
Sky
Chapter XVI The Engineer Ascendant 349
New York, September 1858
Collapsing Space and Time-Fraud!
CONTENTS
BOOK THREE
OTIS LUDLOW S JOURNAL (Ireland, 1866)
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXDI
The Laughingstock and the War
The Atlantic Ocean, April 1861
The Battlefield Artist-The Ship s Artist-Jack s Pro-
gress
The Ludlow Gun
Pittsburgh, Autumn 1862
At the Forge-The Casting
Chapter XIX Little Rents in Time
Boston, Washington, and the Union at Large,
Early September 1862
Her Mission Fields—A Meeting at the Door—A Meet-
ing ofMinds-The Rest of the Night
Jack at War
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Late September 1862
After the Battle-The Convocation-He Meets Her
The Secret Train
The Huron Frontier, October 1862
How It Traveled- VanderWees s Theorems-The Test-
The Revels
Franny s Reckoning
Ovid, Missouri, Autumn 1862
Her Night
Thirty Drops
Pennsylvania, November 1862
Her Card
CONTENTS xi
Chapter XXIV Cannisteo Gorge 463
Various Post Offices and Pennsylvania, Novem-
ber 1862
A Letter Undelivered—A Bridge
Chapter XXV Far to the West 471
Far to the West, November 1862
Far to the West
BOOK FOUR
OTIS LUDLOW S JOURNAL (IRELAND, 1866) 475
Chapter XXVI Cablemen 483
London and Maine, Winter-Spring 1865
Faeries by Day, Z00 ty Night—The Barge Soiree-
Speakers Corner—An Embrace and News
Chapter XXVII Unspooling the Cable; Unraveling the Past 505
The Adantic Ocean, July-August 1865
Var miles of cable paid out and taken up too numerous
to mention
Chapter XXVm The Hotel Ammonoosuc 543
New Hampshire, Late Summer 1865
Into the Subiime-The Show-At the Pidure-They
Catch Up-What Spude Hates-The Fire
Chapter XXIX The Dissolution 559
London and Ireland, Winter 1865-66
A Christmas Visit—One Secret Kept, One Disclosed
OTIS LUDLOW S JOURNAL (Ireland, 1866) 573
xii CONTENTS
Chapter XXX To Heart s Content 577
Ireland and America, Summer-Fall 1866
He Stays Behind—Reunion—Two Weeks Later
EPILOGUE 587
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