Umfang:
xii, 243 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln :
,
Illustrationen, Karten ;
,
27 cm.
ISBN:
978-164336-014-0
,
1-64336-014-0
Inhalt:
The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf's human history and culture so rich. Many famous figures who sailed the Gulf's viridian waters are highlighted, including Ponce de León, Robert Cavelier de La Salle, Francis Drake, Elizabeth Agassiz, Ernest Hemingway, and Charles Dwight Sigsbee at the helm of the doomed Maine. Sledge also introduces a fascinating array of people connected to maritime life in the Gulf, among them Maya priests, French pirates, African American stevedores, and Greek sponge divers. Gulf events of global historical importance are detailed, such as the only defeat of armed and armored steamships by wooden sailing vessels, the first accurate deep-sea survey and bathymetric map of any ocean basin, the development of shipping containers by a former truck driver frustrated with antiquated loading practices, and the worst environmental disaster in American annals.
Anmerkung:
Introduction: "The ungovernable Gulf" -- Indian shore -- Spanish sea -- Colonial crossroads -- Pirates' haunt -- King Cotton's pond -- Violent sea -- American sea -- Blowout! -- Epilogue: The wreck of the Rachel
Weitere Ausg.:
Online version Sledge, John S. (John Sturdivant), 1957- Gulf of Mexico Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019] ISBN 9781643360157
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Küstengebiet
;
Siedlung
;
Kultur
;
Schifffahrt
;
Handel
;
History
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