A pictorial history of sailing ships from the Baltimore packets of the 1800s to the swift clippers of the twentieth century

Product Description: Contents include: 'The Wealth of the Indies', 'Merchant Adventurers', 'Liners and Tramps', 'Competition and Combination' and 'The World's Key Industry'.

Explores the evolving role of boats and ships in American history, from the dugout and birch-bark canoes of Native Americans to twenty-first century container ships and supertankers.

Product Description: A collection of 11 articles which explore areas of the history of world shipping. Articles examine such areas as the creation of the Marine Department at the Board of Trade, steam navigation to Australia, port development in the USA and the move from coal to oil. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tells the history and development of ships and shipping, from the days of the first explorers to modern-day craft such as oil tankers and cruise ships

Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history

Surveys the development of ship design and construction, navigation, military, merchant, and commercial sea-practice, and maritime law, from the fifth millennium B.C. to the present

A pictorial history of sailing ships from the Baltimore packets of the 1800s to the swift clippers of the twentieth century