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Voyage of the Frolic : New England Merchants and the Opium Trade by Thomas N. Layton (1997, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN-100804729093
ISBN-139780804729093
eBay Product ID (ePID)201363
Product Key Features
Book TitleVoyage of the Frolic : New England Merchants and the Opium Trade
Number of Pages246 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicArchaeology, Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, Commerce, General, Ships & Shipbuilding / History
Publication Year1997
IllustratorYes
GenreTransportation, Social Science, Business & Economics, History, Medical
AuthorThomas N. Layton
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17.8 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN96-044320
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal979.4/1501
SynopsisThis is the detailed history of the clipper Frolic, a sailing ship built in New England in the 1840s specifically for the Asian opium trade: its design and construction; the voyages between Bombay and China; its personal stories of skipper, crew, and owners; its conversion to the Chinese cargo trade to Gold Rush California; and, finally, the end of the Frolic in 1850 when it wrecked on the rocks of the Mendocino coast north of San Francisco., In 1984, the author and a group of his archaeology students discovered fragments of Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian village on the Mendocino coast north of San Francisco. How did these hundred year old ceramics find their way to this remote area? And what of the local legend that told of Pomo women wearing Chinese silk shawls in the 1850s? In seeking the answers to these questions, The Voyage of the 'Frolic' navigates a journey through the lives of nineteenth-century Boston merchants, Baltimore shipbuilders, Bombay opium brokers, newly rich businessmen in gold rush San Francisco, and a woman who burned her father's papers in 1942 in an attempt to conceal the truth about his voyages as captain of the 'Frolic' almost a century before. A truly fascinating picture of the politics, finance and logistics of the nineteenth century opium trade.
LC Classification NumberF868.M5L39 1997
