Live Yankees: The Sewells and Their Ships
For nearly a century members of the Sewall family built and managed a fleet of more than one hundred merchant vessels, mostly stout deepwater square-riggers. No family has been more intimately associated with the history of the city of Bath, then among the most productive shipbuilding communities of any size in the world. Despite a veneer of old-fashioned formalized civility, international shipping in the late 1800s and early 1900s was a highly competitive, low-margin, and often cut-throat business. While the Sewalls' shrewd responses to market changes make a fascinating story, the surviving correspondence from their captains offers adventure…
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- ISBN: 978-0-88448-315-1
- EAN: 9780884483151
- Produktnummer: 4400430
- Verlag: Tilbury House Publ
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Masse: H25.9 cm x B18.7 cm x D4.5 cm 1'568 g
- Gewicht: 1568
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