Steamboats on the Western Rivers and the Blake Transfer Method

and the Blake Transfer Method

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One of the first Western studies to systematically cover the more than two thousand years of Chinese art

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Steamboats on the Western Rivers and the Blake Transfer MethodDefinitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development: its construction, equipment and operation; the organization and conduct of steamboat transportation as a business enterprise; the hazards and amenities of shipboard life; steamboat races on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; collisions, explosions and fires; the rise of competition; the ultimate decline, and much more.