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W. H. Bunting

Live Yankees: The Sewells and Their Ships

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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… Mehr

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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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