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SOLD Shallow Draught Stern-Wheel Steamer For South America This is a technical engravings and original article describing a steamer designed and built for use on the shallow Magdalena River of Columbia in South America. This is in excellent condition and was published in a British engineering journal and is dated September 30, 1887. Related article describing the vessel in detail included. Price $45 Item #1012
From its source in Lake Magdalena in the southern part of the country through its voyage to conquer the Caribbean Sea, the Great Magdalena River is reborn for all Colombians in the certainty that it will sow in their hearts the desire to sail its waters and to evoke, step by step, the odysseys of the pioneers who believed they would find in its torrents the hope for a better future. A thousand tales, a thousand stories, a thousand legends can be divined about the Great Magdalena River inspired by those who with the wisdom of their words have passed down its secrets over the centuries. |
