Download or read book Perils Of The Atlantic written by William Flayhart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perils of the Atlantic" captures the stories of a number of vessels that experienced adventure on the high seas, from the tragic loss of the liner "Arctic" in 1854 to the swift sinking of the Italian "Andrea Doria" in 1956.