A. B. C. Whipple

Profusely illustrated text discusses the clipper ships that dominated the world's sailing routes in the last half of the nineteenth century.

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For centuries, four nations along the northern rim of Africa then known as the Barbary Coast had been terrorizing merchant shippers, capturing and looting their vessels and imprisoning their crews for ransom. With a vital lifeline of the infant United States threatened by the Barbary pirates, President Thomas Jefferson faced one of the first major challenges to U.S. foreign policy: He could continue trading arms for hostages with the Barbary Coast rulers or he could meet force with force.

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TEMPETE, METEOROLOGIE.

Account of the more picturesque pirates who plagued shipping along the American coast and in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.

This biography of the seventeenth-century New York merchant concentrates on the last six years of his life and the mission which led to his conviction and execution.

Meere - Geographie - Popularisierung/Belletristik.