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ISBN: 9781332171484
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Excerpt from The Pacific Steam Navigation Company; Official Guide: To Which Is Appended a Tourist Guide, Specially Prepared With Maps Plans for the Use of Passengers Visiting Great Britain and the Continent of Europe, or the United States and Canada Consequent on this peculiarity of destination the fleet of this enterprising company, although large, was comparatively but little known in England, and was not generally included among the immense commercial maritime resources of the country. Gradually, however, the policy which first guided the counsels of the company was widened and extended, and in pursuance of this a line of first-class steamers of very large dimensions was constructed by the company for the purpose of conducting a large and growing trade between the South American continent, on both its east and west sides, and Liverpool. From this period the Pacific Steam Navigation Company rose speedily to be one of the most extensive agencies by which the commercial enterprise of Liverpool is carried out. Fully and clearly to understand the position, and to comprehend the growth and importance of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, which from a very modest beginning has grown to the gigantic proportions it has latterly assumed, it is necessary to go back to what in these days of rapid development seems a remote period. The establishment of a first-class line of steamships for carrying on the large and still growing trade which was known to exist on the west coast of South America, will be readily admitted to have been a grand idea - an idea demanding extensive and varied knowledge, a large amount of practical skill, rare administrative talent, and the command of very extensive pecuniary resources - such a combination indeed of organizing skill and commercial sagacity as it is exceedingly difficult to bring together, and in addition to all these so thorough an appreciation of comprehensive integrity as is not frequently combined in carrying out a commercial undertaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.