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English
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"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...
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...
3) Lord Jim
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A disgraced 19th-century British sailor lives nobly among natives.
4) Lord Jim
Author
Language
English
Description
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed....
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the American container ship El Faro, the crew of 33 who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of globalization that put the ship in harm's way"--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Rediker turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of maritime adventure not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commoners: sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. He reveals how the "motley" (ie: multiethnic) crews were a driving force behind the American Revolution; that pirates, enslaved...
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