Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
by Ujifusa, Steven
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1476745978
- ISBN 13
- 9781476745978
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NY: Simon & Schuster, 2018. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 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. Clean, like new copy. Record # 383205
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383205
- Title
- Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
- Author
- Ujifusa, Steven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1476745978
- ISBN 13
- 9781476745978
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- History, Nautical, , .
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- History;
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