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Author : Arthur Hamilton Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur Hamilton Clark and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Jefferson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472900294
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail written by Sam Jefferson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of commercial sail, clipper ships were the ultimate expression of speed and grace. Racing out to the gold fields of America and Australia, and breaking speed records carrying tea back from China, the ships combined beauty with breathtaking performance. With over 200 gorgeous paintings and illustrations, and thrilling descriptions of the adventures and races on the water, this beautiful book brings the era vividly to life. Chapters include: The origins of the clippers - from the gold rush to the tea trade A hell ship voyage with 'Bully' Waterman, one of the most successful and notorious captains of the era Marco Polo, the fastest ship in the world - her rise to prominence and subsequent decline Mary Patten's battle with Cape Horn - a lady captain takes charge in a very male world Mutiny aboard the 'wild boat of the Atlantic' The great China tea race of 1866 - an amazingly close race across the world, only decided in the final few miles The Sir Lancelot defies the odds - her eccentric captains and rivalry with the legendary Thermopylae The Cutty Sark's longest voyage First-hand accounts, newspaper reports and log entries add fascinating eyewitness detail, whilst the stunning images show how the designs of these thoroughbreds developed over the years. A wonderful read and worthy celebration of these racehorses of the sea.
Author : Arthur Hamilton Clark
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230449081
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era; an Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews, 1843-1869 written by Arthur Hamilton Clark and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...and famous Typhoon, a ship more than double her size. It should, however, be remembered with regard to the Sea Witch, that she was at that time over five years old, and had led a pretty wild life under Waterman, while she had known no peace with Frazer in command, and had been strained and weakened by hard driving. Moreover, a wooden ship, after five or six years, begins to lose her speed through absorbing water, and becomes sluggish in light airs. In her prime and at her best with Waterman in command, the Sea Witch was probably the fastest sailing-ship of her inches ever built. The California clippers were, of course, racing all the time, against each other and against the record, aDd the strain upon their captains in driving their ships against competitors whose relative positions were unknown, was terrific. It became a confirmed habit with them to keep their ships going night and day in all weathers and at their utmost speed. In order to appreciate what a passage of 110 days or less from an Atlantic port to San Francisco really means, we must take a few of the long passages of 1851, made by ships that were not clippers: Arthur, from New York, 200 days; Austerlitz, Boston, 185 days; Barrington, Boston, 180 days; Bengal, Philadelphia, 185 days; Capitol, Boston, 300 days; Cornwallis, New York, 204 days; Franconia, Boston, 180 days; Henry Allen, New York, 225 days; Inconium, Baltimore, 190 days. The logs of these vessels tell of long, weary days and nights of exasperating calms, and dreary, heartbreaking weeks of battle with tempests off Cape Horn. Some of the vessels built in 1851 did not take part in the races of that year, as they were not launched until too late; and did not arrive at San Francisco before 1852. Those among them which...
Author : Arthur Hamilton Clark
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539419228
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (192 download)
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur Hamilton Clark and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clipper Ship Era is a fascinating book about American and British Clipper ships in the 19th century.
Author : William L. Crothers
Publisher : International Marine Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American-built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856 written by William L. Crothers and published by International Marine Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 H. Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur H. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Octavius Thorndike Howe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486251152
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858 written by Octavius Thorndike Howe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First volume of invaluable, fully illustrated, encyclopedic review of 352 clipper ships from the period of America's greatest maritime supremacy. Introduction. Total in set: 109 halftones. 5 illustrations. Index.
Author : Arthur Hamilton Clark
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The clipper ship era; an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869 written by Arthur Hamilton Clark and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1910-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Ujifusa
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476745986
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Barons of the Sea written by Steven Ujifusa and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Author : Arthur Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781987495386
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur Clark and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clipper Ship Era covers famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, from 1843-1869.
Author : Carl C. Cutler
Publisher : Annapolis : United States Naval Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Greyhounds of the Sea written by Carl C. Cutler and published by Annapolis : United States Naval Institute. This book was released on 1961 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With new illustrations and additional information.
Author : Arthur H. Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur H. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Hamilton Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur Hamilton Clark and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur H. Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur H. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur H. Clark
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur H. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Hamilton Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur Hamilton Clark and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Hamilton 1841-1922 Clark
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361360095
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)
Download or read book CLIPPER SHIP ERA written by Arthur Hamilton 1841-1922 Clark and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
