Author: John Ross Browne
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Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar; and a Brief History of the Whale Industry, in Its Past and Present Condition. With ... Engravings and Woodcuts
Author: John Ross Browne
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Etchings of a Whaling Cruise
Author: John Ross Browne
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Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Shanghaiing Sailors
Author: Mark Strecker
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476615764
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
"Shaghaiing," or forcing a man to join the crew of a merchant ship against his will, plagued seafarers the world over between 1849 and 1915. Perpetrators were known as "crimps," and they had no respect for a man's education, social status, race, religion, or seafaring experience. The merchant ships were involved in the opium, tea and gold trades, and the practice was spurred by the opening of the Suez Canal. A major reason for it was a shortage of sailors and the unwillingness of seamen to sail on certain types of ships. They suffered from great deprivations, all for a paltry sum usually squandered during shore leave. Navies and pirates had their own form of shanghaiing called impressment. This work explores the rich history of shanghaiing and impressment with a focus on victims and also considers the 19th century seafarer and the circumstances that made shanghaiing so lucrative.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476615764
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
"Shaghaiing," or forcing a man to join the crew of a merchant ship against his will, plagued seafarers the world over between 1849 and 1915. Perpetrators were known as "crimps," and they had no respect for a man's education, social status, race, religion, or seafaring experience. The merchant ships were involved in the opium, tea and gold trades, and the practice was spurred by the opening of the Suez Canal. A major reason for it was a shortage of sailors and the unwillingness of seamen to sail on certain types of ships. They suffered from great deprivations, all for a paltry sum usually squandered during shore leave. Navies and pirates had their own form of shanghaiing called impressment. This work explores the rich history of shanghaiing and impressment with a focus on victims and also considers the 19th century seafarer and the circumstances that made shanghaiing so lucrative.
Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents
Author: Smithsonian Institution
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
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Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Conditions of the Institution for the Year ....
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
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Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The United States Democratic Review
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840.
United States Magazine, and Democratic Review
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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