Author: Basil Lubbock
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: BASIL. LUBBOCK
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ISBN: 9781033046104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Basil Lubbock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Steven Ujifusa
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1476745986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award–winning author of In the Heart of the Sea). There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business—one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge of the day became ensuring one’s goods arrived first to market, so they might fetch the highest price. “With the verse of a natural dramatist” (The Christian Science Monitor), Steven Ujifusa tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores. They were visionary, eccentric shipbuilders, debonair captains, and socially ambitious merchants with names like Forbes and Delano—men whose business interests took them from the cloistered confines of China’s expatriate communities to the sin city decadence of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, and from the teeming hubbub of East Boston’s shipyards and to the lavish sitting rooms of New York’s Hudson Valley estates. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, Barons of the Sea is a riveting tale of innovation and ingenuity that “takes the reader on a rare and intoxicating journey back in time” (Candice Millard, bestselling author of Hero of the Empire), drawing back the curtain on the making of some of the nation’s greatest fortunes, and the rise and fall of an all-American industry as sordid as it was genteel.

Author: Neja Tomšič
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789619408230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Lindsay Anderson
Publisher:
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Category : Opium trade
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Author: Basil Lubbock
Publisher: Boston : [s.n.
ISBN:
Category : Clipper-ships
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Jane D. Lyon
Publisher: New Word City
ISBN: 1612309690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Against great odds, a small group of patriots built a fleet that proved one of the decisive factors in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. These wealthy men had founded the first banks in the United States and built its first railroads, factories, and steamships. Now, they were to cap their achievements by making their young country equally superior in size, and in the process, producing the greatest, swiftest, and most beautiful craft the world had ever seen - the clipper ship. This book not only traces the origins and achievements of the clipper but enlivens the dry bones of historic fact with the flesh and blood of clipper captains and crews. A great era comes to life with their courageous, tenacious stories.

Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871404338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Traces the history of the relationship between America and China back to its earliest days, when the United States traded with China for furs, opium, and rare sea cucumbers, but left an ecological and human rights disaster that still reverberates today.

Author: Peter D. Lowes
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600040303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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