"The book is solid scholarship and great writing. It's an excellent job of distilling a very complex corporate history and making it as appealing as it is understandable. It will appeal to boatwatchers and serious historians alike. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it!"--C. Patrick Labadie, Director, Canal Park Visitor Center and Marine Museum "Overall, this is a very readable account of a century of change within the Pittsurgh Steamship Company. Mr. Miller maintains the interest of the reader by emphasizing the human element in this story.In short, academics and casual readers would enjoy this book.

Note should also be made of the excellent photographs that are spaced throughout the text."--Jerome K. Laurent, "Tin Stackers' pace compels interest in a tremendous number of ships, their cargoes and voyages, dropping into the narrative enlightening views on operations from bridge to engine room. Maritime veterans and laymen will be swept along in the current."--William Donohue Ellis,.