The Colonial Clippers


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Reproduction of the original: The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock




The Colonial Clippers


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The Colonial Clippers


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The Colonial Clipper


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Merchant Sail


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The American Clipper Ship, 1845-1920


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This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced times of the 1850s spurred on by the California Gold Rush of 1849. Not only are the career details of such noted ships as the Flying Cloud and Challenge discussed in detail, but they are also put in context with the times in which they operated. Their builders in East Coast states from Maine to Florida are discussed in detail, as are the men, and a woman in one instance, who commanded and manned these ships. The book documents the roles that owners and shipping agents played, what kinds of cargo the ships carried worldwide and the unusual trades in which they participated.




Atlantic Ocean


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Presents an illustrated examination of the Atlantic Ocean and the transformative role it has played as a corridor for the exchange of people, technologies, ideas, goods, and cultures for over two thousand years as exploration and discovery helped in the growth of global commerce.




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The first scholarly edition of Conrad's posthumously published prose pieces, as well as his Congo notebooks.




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