Clipper Ship Days
Author: John Jennings
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Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781258124281
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Author: John Jennings
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Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781258124281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Jennings
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the clipper ships and gives a history of their use.
Author: Mary Matthews Bray
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A diary kept during a long voyage in a fast-sailing clipper ship in the days before steel ocean liners when the United States was first on the list of maritime nations. The book reflects the customs and ideas of the people and vividly describes the countries as they then appeared"--Dust jacket.
Author: Bruce D. Roberts
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780979469701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John D. Whidden
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William L. Crothers
Publisher: International Marine Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American-Built Clipper Ship presents in detail 152 clippers that comprise the culmination of the shipbuilder's art. Every facet of clipper-ship design and construction is covered, from felling timber to details on interior finish work. Detailed drawings illustrate this work.
Author: Arthur Hamilton Clark
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John D. Whidden
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David W. Shaw
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 0061873888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlying Cloud is the riveting and thoroughly researched tale of a truly unforgettable sea voyage during the days of the California gold rush. In 1851, navigator Eleanor Creesy set sail on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud, traveling from New York to San Francisco in only 89 days. This swift passage set a world record that went unbroken for more than a century. Upon arrival in San Francisco, Flying Cloud became an enduring symbol of a young nation's daring frontier spirit. Illustrated with original maps and charts as well as historical photographs, Shaw's compelling narrative captures the drama of this thrilling adventure. In a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-19th century, Eleanor Creesy served as the ship's navigator. With only the sun, planets, and stars to guide her, she brought Flying Cloud safely around Cape Horn at the height of a winter blizzard, faced storms, dodged shoals, and found her way through calms to make the swift passage possible. Along with her husband, Josiah, the ship's captain, she sailed the mighty 3-masted clipper through 16,000 miles of the fiercest, most unpredictable oceans in the world. Shaw vividly recreates 19th-century seafaring conditions and customs, for both the crew and the passengers who entrusted their fate to an untested ship. Including excerpts from letters and diaries of passengers, Shaw recounts Flying Cloud's victory in the face of adversity—including sabotage, insubordination, and severe damage to the clipper's mainmast that might have sunk her with all hands lost. But the ship triumphed and would ultimately sail the world. Flying Cloud brings to life, for the first time, the glory of one of America's most important seafaring tales and one woman's incredible achievements.
Author: Steven Ujifusa
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-07-02
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1476745986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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.