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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Monthly Nautical Magazine, and Quarterly Review
Author: Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Journal of the Royal institution of Great Britain. Notices of the proceedings [afterw.] Proceedings of the Royal institution of Great Britain
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Author: Royal institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
Author: Eric Jay DolinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 087140348X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and bêche-de-mer—a rare sea cucumber delicacy—might have catalyzed America’s emerging economy, but it also sparked an ecological and human rights catastrophe of such epic proportions that the reverberations can still be felt today. Peopled with fascinating characters—from the “Financier of the Revolution” Robert Morris to the Chinese emperor Qianlong, who considered foreigners inferior beings—this page-turning saga of pirates and politicians, coolies and concubines becomes a must-read for any fan of Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower or Mark Kurlansky’s Cod.
Catalogue of the San Francisco Free Public Library, Short Titles: June 1882
Author: San Francisco Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A Review of the Elementary Spelling Book
Author: Lyman CobbPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: List of (the more important) books added. Apr. 1863-July 1876. [Imperf.]. [entitled] Bulletin
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Author: Library company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Compiled by William Upcott, Richard Thomson and Edward W. Brayley.]
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Author: London Institution (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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