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A Cruise in an Opium Clipper - Captain Lindsay Anderson

They say not to judge a book by its cover but in this case, I think it’s safe to do so. covers precisely that subject matter. Captain Lindsey Anderson relates in some detail his time serving aboard the clipper schooner Eamont as it engaged in the illicit smuggling of opium into China, a trade that brought obscene wealth to a number of British and American merchants in the early to mid 19th century. For the unenlightened, this trade was set up largely by

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