Author: George Kao
Publisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622014237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Originally published as newspaper columns, the thirty-odd pieces collected in this volume bring to life San Francisco's Chinatown at mid-century.
Author: Gerrit de Veer
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Category : Northeast Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Author: Gerrit de Veer
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Category : Northeast Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Author: Gavin Young
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Category : Airlines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Charles T. Beke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317186273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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With an appendix of documents printed by Hakluyt and Purchas. Revised in First Series 54. The plates are taken from the German edition of De Bry, 1599, and are copies of the original Amsterdam edition. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1853.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Author: Gerrit “de” Veer
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Category : Group reading
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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