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Coastal Exploration of Washington

Robert Ballard Whitebrook

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Description:For centuries man sought by sea to conquer the world, as he is today conquering it by air. Sails were the wings of yesterday which travelers hoped would carry them through a waterway across the American continent to the western sea. Men dreamed of a Strait of Anian or a Northwest Passage which would shorten the long arduous voyage from Europe to the East. The story of this search for the Northwest Passage Mr. Whitebrook tells with great interest, relating to it the chronology of maritime history back through the Renaissance and the Middle Ages to the classic period of Greece.Another major contribution is the locating, for the first time, of the various landings made on the west coast of Washington and in Puget Sound by the Spanish and English explorers. Thirteen pages of modern charts show these historic places in accurate detail, thus creating interest not only for the professional historian, but for the thousands of boat owners in the Puget Sound area, who may now trace the courses of Quimper, Eliza, and Vancouver on their own charts.In the concluding chapter the author relates what he believes to be the salient social and economic forces which were left as the heritage to the New World from two of the great nations who originally explored it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Coastal Exploration of Washington. To get started finding Coastal Exploration of Washington, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 146

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Pacific Books

Release: 1959

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Description: For centuries man sought by sea to conquer the world, as he is today conquering it by air. Sails were the wings of yesterday which travelers hoped would carry them through a waterway across the American continent to the western sea. Men dreamed of a Strait of Anian or a Northwest Passage which would shorten the long arduous voyage from Europe to the East. The story of this search for the Northwest Passage Mr. Whitebrook tells with great interest, relating to it the chronology of maritime history back through the Renaissance and the Middle Ages to the classic period of Greece.Another major contribution is the locating, for the first time, of the various landings made on the west coast of Washington and in Puget Sound by the Spanish and English explorers. Thirteen pages of modern charts show these historic places in accurate detail, thus creating interest not only for the professional historian, but for the thousands of boat owners in the Puget Sound area, who may now trace the courses of Quimper, Eliza, and Vancouver on their own charts.In the concluding chapter the author relates what he believes to be the salient social and economic forces which were left as the heritage to the New World from two of the great nations who originally explored it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Coastal Exploration of Washington. To get started finding Coastal Exploration of Washington, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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