Books
4 results found| Title | Authors | Description | OpenBook ID | |
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The Atlantic Transport Line, 1881-1931 | Jonathan Kinghorn | "This volume chronicles the history of the line and its absorption into J.P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Company. Descriptions of life on board vessels, individual histories of every ves… | OL16343010W |
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The French assault on American shipping, 1793-1813 | Greg H. Williams | "During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, French privateers and cruisers legally and illegally took cargo from merchant vessels. Filed by descendants of anyone who had a financial interes… | OL4971449W |
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Western river transportation | Erik F. Haites | Includes information on barges, construction, flatboats, keelboats, freight, passengers, routes, steamboats, tonnage, Trans-Appalachian West, etc. | OL6627038W |
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Voyaging to Cathay | Alfred H. Tamarin | Traces the earliest contacts between the United States and China from the years following the American Revolution until the advent of the steamship. | OL6821503W |