Cyrus Field’s Big Dream: The Daring Effort to Lay the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

Mary Morton Cowan.  Calkins Creek, September 2018.  Available on Amazon.  In this book, Mary Morton Cowan highlights the extraordinary achievement of Cyrus Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the 29th century: laying a transatlantic telegraph cable to create instant communication between two continents.  Cowan brilliantly captures Cyrus’ life and his steadfast determination to achieve his dream.