Author: Alpheus Baker HerveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Sea Mosses
Author: Alpheus Baker HerveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast (Esprios Classics)
Author: Agnes C. LautPublisher: 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 FindlayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric circulation
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Bancroft's Pacific Coast Guide Book
Author: John Shertzer HittellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Bentley's Hand-book of the Pacific Coast
Author: William R. BentleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Hittell's Hand-book of Pacific Coast Travel
Author: John Shertzer HittellPublisher:
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, with Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc.
Author: A. G. FindlayPublisher: 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.
A directory for the navigation of the Pacific ocean
Author: Alexander George FindlayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Pacific Coast Gazette
Author: Pacific Coast Guide and Programme of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave at San Francisco, August, 1883
Author: Ira G. HoittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description