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100 1  Ujifusa, Steven,|eauthor. 
245 10 Barons of the sea :|band their race to build the world's 
       fastest clipper ship /|cSteven Ujifusa. 
250    First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c2018. 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    xiv, 427 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-400) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue: the patriarch -- The Canton Silver Cup -- 
       Breaking into the family -- Opium hostages -- Yankees in 
       Gotham -- Mazeppa and the problem child -- Captain Nat -- 
       Family pressure under sail -- Memnon: Delano's California 
       bet -- Enter Donald McKay -- Grinnell grabs the Flying 
       Cloud -- At the starting line -- Around the world -- 
       Frightful to look aloft: Sovereign of the Seas -- Great 
       Republic -- Hill and river -- Surprise and danger -- Glory
       of the Seas -- Keeping it in the family. 
520    "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 lost importing 
       luxury goods from China. It 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 back home to New York could 
       take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing 
       technological challenge of the day became ensuring one's 
       goods arrived first to market, so they might fetch the 
       highest price--making their sellers some of the first 
       millionaires.  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. They were 
       visionary, eccentric shipbuilders, debonair captains, and 
       socially ambitious merchants with names like Forbes and 
       Delano--men whose business interests took them from the 
       cloistered confines of China's expatriate communities to 
       the sin-city decadence of Gold Rush-era San Francisco and 
       from the teeming hubbub of East Boston's shipyards and to 
       the lavish sitting rooms of New Yorks Hudson Valley 
       estates.  Elegantly written and meticulously researched, 
       Barons of the Sea is a riveting tale of innovation and 
       ingenuity that draws back the curtain on the making of 
       some of the nation's greatest fortunes, and the rise and 
       fall of an all-American industry as sordid as it was 
       genteel"--Dust jacket. 
648  7 1800-1899|2fast 
650  0 Clipper ships|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Merchant marine|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Shipping|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  1 Clipper ships|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
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650  7 Merchant marine.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01016936 
650  7 Shipping.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01116352 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aUjifusa, Steven.|tBarons of the sea.
       |dNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2018|z9781476745992|w(DLC) 
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