Author: John Haskell KemblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
The Panama Route to the Pacific Coast, 1848-1869. (Reprinted from The Pacific Historical Review.).
Author: John Haskell KembleThe Panama Route to the Pacific Coast, 1848-1869. (Reprinted from The Pacific Historical Review.).
Author: John Haskell KemblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
The Panama Route, 1848-1869
Author: John Haskell KemblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A description of the travel of coastal steamers across the Isthmus of Panama, this book uses contemporary manuscript and newspaper sources to paint a picture of the ships themselves and life aboard them. The author describes the various steamship lines and their rivalry.
The Panama Route
Author: The Panama Railroad
Author: Peter PynePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253052084
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat—they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level, it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America, Panama, the West Indies, and Asia, as well as in Ireland. The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad's construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845–49.
History of Navigation & Navigation Improvements on the Pacific Coast
Author: Anthony F. TurhollowPublisher:
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Category : Coastwise navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Pacific Historical Review
Author: John Carl ParishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Vols. 1- include Proceedings of the 27th- annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
The Panama Route
Author: John Haskell KembleThe Panamá Route to California, 1848-1869
Author: John Haskell KemblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
The Panama Canal and the Pacific Coast
Author: George M. ShepherdPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666045409
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Excerpt from The Panama Canal and the Pacific Coast: Originally Issued as a Supplement of the Commercial and the Financial Chronicle, New York, November 28, 1914 The publishers have endeavored to make the advertising pages of this edition as valu able to the reader for purposes of reference as the editorial and special articles, and statistical tables. With this end in view they have exercised careful scrutiny and discrimination as to the character of the advertising appearing herein, without regard to a possible sacrifice in its volume. 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.