Voyage of the ""frolic"", the: new england merchants and the opium trade
Auteur :
Layton, Thomas N.
Éditeur :
Stanford University Press
ISBN :
9780804729093
Date de publication :
31 janv. 1998
Dimensions :
23,7 x 16,0 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
528 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In 1984, the author excavated fragments of Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian village. He discovered that the clipper ""Frolic"", a ship built specifically for the Asian opium trade, had wrecked a few miles from the village and uncovered a picture of the 19th-century opium trade.