Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront by James P. Delgado

Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront

James P. Delgado

256 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Described as a "forest of masts," San Francisco's Gold Rush waterfront was a floating economy of ships and wharves, where a dazzling array of global goods was traded and transported. Drawing on excavations in buried ships and collapsed buildings f...

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