Author: Alpheus Baker Hervey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Sea Mosses. A Collector's Guide and an Introduction to the Study of Marine Algae
Author: Alpheus Baker Hervey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338542223X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338542223X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast (Esprios Classics)
Author: Agnes C. Laut
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359862020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
All through the sixteenth century the South Seas were regarded as a mysterious wonderworld, whence Spain drew unlimited wealth of gold and silver bullion, of pearls and precious stones. Spain had declared the Pacific 'a closed sea' to the rest of the world. But in 1567 it happened that Sir John Hawkins, an English mariner, was cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, when a terrific squall, as he said, drove his ships landward to Vera Cruz, and he sent a messenger to the Spanish viceroy there asking permission to dock and repair his battered vessels. Now on one of the English ships was a young officer, not yet twenty-five years of age, named Francis Drake. Twelve Spanish merchantmen rigged as frigates lay in the harbour, and Drake observed that cargo of small bulk but ponderous weight, and evidently precious, was being stowed in their capacious holds. Was this the gold and silver bullion that was enriching Spain beyond men's dreams? Whence did it come? Could English privateers intercept it on the high seas?
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359862020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
All through the sixteenth century the South Seas were regarded as a mysterious wonderworld, whence Spain drew unlimited wealth of gold and silver bullion, of pearls and precious stones. Spain had declared the Pacific 'a closed sea' to the rest of the world. But in 1567 it happened that Sir John Hawkins, an English mariner, was cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, when a terrific squall, as he said, drove his ships landward to Vera Cruz, and he sent a messenger to the Spanish viceroy there asking permission to dock and repair his battered vessels. Now on one of the English ships was a young officer, not yet twenty-five years of age, named Francis Drake. Twelve Spanish merchantmen rigged as frigates lay in the harbour, and Drake observed that cargo of small bulk but ponderous weight, and evidently precious, was being stowed in their capacious holds. Was this the gold and silver bullion that was enriching Spain beyond men's dreams? Whence did it come? Could English privateers intercept it on the high seas?
A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean: The coasts of the Pacific Ocean
Author: Alexander George Findlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric circulation
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric circulation
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Bancroft's Pacific Coast Guide Book
Author: John Shertzer Hittell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc.
Author: A. G. Findlay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108059724
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
First published in 1851, this two-volume work is a comprehensive nautical directory of the coastlines and islands of the Pacific.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108059724
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
First published in 1851, this two-volume work is a comprehensive nautical directory of the coastlines and islands of the Pacific.
Hittell's Hand-book of Pacific Coast Travel
Author: John Shertzer Hittell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Coast
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Discusses Union Pacific and Central Pacific rail routes to the West, cities, scenery, resorts, and natural history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Coast
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Discusses Union Pacific and Central Pacific rail routes to the West, cities, scenery, resorts, and natural history.
A directory for the navigation of the Pacific ocean
Author: Alexander George Findlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
A la California
Author: Albert S. Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Albert S. Evans (1831-1872) was a New Hampshire-born California journalist, serving as correspondent for the New York Tribune and Chicago Tribune. Á la California (1873) is a volume of reminiscences and anecdotal history published after Evans's death at sea. He begins by taking his reader on a tour from the Sierra Morena through the San Andreas Valley, south to Pescadero and Santa Cruz, up the Napa Valley and Mount St. Helena. He offers several chapters on San Francisco, with special attention to the legends of the Barbary Coast and Chinatown and tales of miners in the Gold Rush.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Albert S. Evans (1831-1872) was a New Hampshire-born California journalist, serving as correspondent for the New York Tribune and Chicago Tribune. Á la California (1873) is a volume of reminiscences and anecdotal history published after Evans's death at sea. He begins by taking his reader on a tour from the Sierra Morena through the San Andreas Valley, south to Pescadero and Santa Cruz, up the Napa Valley and Mount St. Helena. He offers several chapters on San Francisco, with special attention to the legends of the Barbary Coast and Chinatown and tales of miners in the Gold Rush.
The A.S. of C.C. Bulletin
Author: American Society of Curio Collectors
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A.S. of C.C. Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description