The Opium Clippers; With Illustrations and Plans
by Lubbock, Basil
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0851742416
- ISBN 13
- 9780851742410
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson [0-85174-241-6] 1976, 2nd printing. (Small 4to) 392pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Map endpapers, tables, photographs, illustrations, appendix, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped and edgeworn with a 1-1 / 2-inch chip to the top of the front panel near the spine. "Of all the sea trades engaged in by man from the times of the Phoenicians right down to the present day, that of the opium traffic into China was one of the most risky and adventurous, for it was a forbidden trade on a scarcely-known coast amidst wild, stormy seas and in the haunts of the most cruel pirates the world has ever known". Book about Sea Trade. Locale: China. (Transportation, Clipper Ships, Mercantile Economy, Opium, Pirates, Sailing).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154303
- Title
- The Opium Clippers; With Illustrations and Plans
- Author
- Lubbock, Basil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0851742416
- ISBN 13
- 9780851742410
- Publisher
- Brown, Son & Ferguson
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- This edition first published
- December 1987
- Keywords
- Transportation, Clipper Ships, Mercantile Economy, Opium, Pirates, Sailing
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- Transportation;
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