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The history of the celebrated clipper ships in the Chinese opium and tea trades. Many of the incidents relating to the great tea races, typhoons, ...
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This book describes the great wooden clippers of the Black Ball, White Star, Eagle, and other lines which carried the emigrants from Liverpool to ...
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- £24.00
A history of the famous tea and wool clipper, Cutty Sark, the most interesting sailing ship still afloat, considered to have been the fastest of all ...
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- £24.00
The Last of the Windjammers (Volume 1)
The book was planned to take in every Sailing Ship of any note from the year of the opening of the Suez Canal to the present day, but in practice ...
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- £30.00
The Last of the Windjammers (Volume 2)
The second volume embraces the period 1888-1928, forty hard years for the Windjammer. Mr. Lubbock's virile pen draws wonderful word-pictures of the ...
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The Blackwall Frigates form a connecting link between the lordly East lndiaman of the Honourable John Company and the magnificent P. & 0. and ...
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This book is an attempt to give a history of these ships, which have long been known to seafarers under two names - The Down Easters, indicating ...
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- £24.00
Of all sea trades that of the opium smuggler was undoubtedly one of the most romantic. The dangers of the trade were as great as the profits. ...
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The feats of the great German "P" boats of F. Laeisz and their French rivals, the checker-sided nitrate barques of Ant. Dom Bordes, are well worthy ...
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- £22.00
The glamorous Arctic whaling and the amazing life of the whale hunters in their fight to wrest a fortune from the pitiless Northern sea and ...
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