New Street Nautical Audio Launches DYNASTIES OF THE SEA by CNBC's Lori Ann LaRocco

NEWPORT, R.I. - Jan. 2, 2014 - PRLog -- Originally published in digital and paper editions by Marine Money, Lori Ann LaRocco's Dynasties of the Sea: The Shipowners and Financiers Who Expanded the Era of Free Trade has been hailed for its engaging and informative portraits of the world's great shipping titans and the fleets they oversee.

New Street Nautical Audio - a Division of New Street Communications, LLC - is proud to announce release of the Dynasties audio edition narrated by Kitty Hendrix.

Dynasties of the Sea offers a vivid and fascinating look at one of the most powerful forces in global trade and economic development: world shipping and the magnates who drive the industry.

Operating from Monaco to Hong Kong, London to Athens, Singapore to Oslo, shipowners and their financiers have changed the world in every way.

From transporting agricultural products from Brazil to Africa and the Middle East, to delivering Australian iron ore to China, to carrying Middle East crude oil to Asia and the Americas, to carrying almost every article of clothing you are wearing and every electronic device in the world, shipowners have enabled global economic development and helped raise the global standard of living.

While ocean shipping remains one of the most important businesses in the world, it is also one of the most volatile. Affected by such imponderables as weather and political upheaval, shipowning cultures have maintained their commitment to an industry that has endured for centuries - and will continue to endure for centuries to come.

Profiles in the book include Jim Tisch, Loews Corporation; John Fredriksen, Frontline Ltd.; Angeliki Frangou, Navios Maritime Holdings; Peter Evensen, Teekay Corporation; Philippe Louis-Dreyfus, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group; Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., WL Ross & Co.; Dagfinn Lunde, DVB Bank; Morten Arntzen, Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. and more.

The candid and detailed first-person profiles comprising Dynasties of the Sea provide critical insight into the psychology of today's generation of shipping owners and financiers, from how they view every risk - politically, economically and environ-mentally - to what they see transpiring in the world tomorrow.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lori Ann LaRocco is Senior Talent Producer for CNBC's "Squawk Box" and the author of Thriving in the New Economy (Wiley, 2010). Her next book, Opportunity Knocking, will be published by Agate in 2014.

Available from Amazon, Audible and iTunes.

Length: 7 hours, 24 minutes

Retail List Price $19.95

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