2007, ISBN: 9789780964733

Mystic CT: Mystic Seaport Museum. Very Good-. 2007. Second Edition. Paperback. 9780964731226 . Oversize Paperback. Binding is clean, sound and unworn. The upper fore corners of a few pag… Mehr…

Mystic CT: Mystic Seaport Museum. Very Good-. 2007. Second Edition. Paperback. 9780964731226 . Oversize Paperback. Binding is clean, sound and unworn. The upper fore corners of a few pages have been lightly bumped, else contents are almost as new. Very minor fore edge soil. ; 7 x 9", xvi + 184pp. PAPER COVERS. Glossy, illustrated cover is considerably lighter than posterboard. HISTORY. First printed December 1996, Reprint 2007. "Shanghaiing flourished in San Francisco between 1850 and 1915. .. Sailors' bordinghouses, where the tired, lonely seamen thought they would find clean beds and fresh food were, in fact, traps for the unaware. The saloons and brightly lit gambling and dancing halls where sailors went for entertainment on the waterfront and the nearby Barbary Coast were traps where the hapless victims were transported by Whitehall boats to ships about to weigh anchor. When the senseless sailors awoke from a drugged state as a result of knockout potions slipped into drinks, they found themselves in the fo'c'sles of sailing ships bound for Shanghai, Liverpool and ports east. This book follows the path of the crimps and politicians during their reign in San Francisco from 1850 until 1915. The first four chapers introduce many of the personalities involved in shanghaiing...The century-old mystery of the fate of 'Shanghai' Kelly will also be revealed. The fifth chapter brings the other side of the shanghaiing equation - first-hand accounts of men who were shanghaied. Most of these accounts are published for the first time. Whitehall boatmen, the subject of chapters five and six, formed the crucial connection between sailors' boardinghouses on shore and ships that needed sailors ...Chapters seven and eight document the crimps who were also politicians and their powerful friends... Tables in the Appendix give an understanding of th demographics of the shanghaiing trade. Fifty photographs and line drawings, many not seen for over one-hundred years, help bring the days of SHANGHAIED IN SAN FRANCISCO to life. " Index. ., Mystic Seaport Museum, 2007<