Author: Layton, Thomas N.
Title: The Voyage of the 'Frolic': New England Merchants and the Opium Trade
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1997). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvi,227 pp. Textual map & illustrations. Slight page-edge soil, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Prologue: Point Cabrillo, 1850; Introduction: Three Chop Village;The China Trade; Baltimore; The 'Frolic'; Bombay; Canton; The Final Cargo; Conclusion: The Passing of a Generation; Epilogue: Who Owns the Past?; Appendices: Inventory of George Gardner's Shipyard; Laying Out & Building the 'Frolic'; Outfitting the 'Frolic'.

Keywords: Nautical History, Brig Frolic, California, Shipwreck Ships, Maritime Archeology, Shipwrecks, Mendocino County, China, Opium Trade