Maritime Shipping
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Barons of the Sea
- By: Steven Ujifusa
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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When the United States was young, importing luxury goods from China 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. Barons of the Sea 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.
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Barons of the Sea
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 17-07-2018
- Language: English
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In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the 19th-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades....
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The Channel
- The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
- By: Charlie Connelly
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it's the busiest shipping lane in the world and hosts more than 30 million passenger crossings every year but this sliver of choppy brine, just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, represents much more than a conductor of goods and people.
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The Channel
- The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 25-06-2020
- Language: English
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A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people....
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A Short History of Seafaring
- By: Brian Lavery
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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For more than 5,000 years, the seas have challenged, rewarded and punished the brave sailors who set forth to explore it. This history of the seas and sailing tells the remarkable story of those individuals—whether they lived to tell the tale themselves or not. From the early Polynesian seafarers and the first full circumnavigations of the globe, to explorers picking their way through the coral reefs of the West Indies, this audiobook tells the compelling story of life at sea that lies behind man's search for new lands, new trade, conquest and uncharted waters.
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A Short History of Seafaring
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2022
- Language: English
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Discover a fascinating journey through more than 5,000 years of seafaring history in this essential guide to the most impressive seafaring tales, explorers and maritime environments....
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Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes
- Great Lakes Books Series
- By: Mark L. Thompson
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a 60-foot galley weighing nearly 50 tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century.
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Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes
- Great Lakes Books Series
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-10-2018
- Language: English
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Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century....
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Waterfront Manhattan
- From Henry Hudson to the High Line
- By: Kurt C. Schlichting
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Author Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York's priceless asset. Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but presented the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entirely and sparking a battle between shipping companies, the railroads, and ferries for access to the waterfront.
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Waterfront Manhattan
- From Henry Hudson to the High Line
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-02-2019
- Language: English
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Waterfront Manhattan is a wide-ranging history that will dazzle anyone who is fascinated by New York....
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