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DELGADO, James P Across the Top of the World : The Quest for the Northwest Passage. pbk
Douglas & McIntyre, 2009, ISBN:9781553651598
DELGADO, James P. Across the Top of the World : The Quest for the NorthwestPassage. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, (2009). First Paperback Printing. Pp. (8),ix-xii,[1]-228. Illustrated largely in colour. Double column. 4to, illustrated white and blue card covers with blue spine. A handsomely illustrated treatment of the subject ranging from the experiences of the North's native peoples to early European conceptions of the Passage, from Frobisherto the St. Roch, and to today's icebreaker and nuclear submarine conquests . Very good. 15.00
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DELGADO, James P. Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet : In Search of a Legendary Armada. Cdn in dj.
Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 2008, ISBN:9781553652731
DELGADO, James P. Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet : In Search of a Legendary Armada . Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, (2008). Pp. [i]-xi,(1),1-225,(3), + 16p. of plates. Illustrated. 8vo, orange cloth with black lettering to front and spine. A scholarly survey on the legend regarding the disappearance of Kublai Khan's naval fleet, which allegedly sank en route to Japan in the 1 280s. "Using original sources as diverse as sunken ships, hand-painted scrolls and historical and literary records, [Delgado] tells the fascinating tale of Khubilai's maritime forays and solves one of history's greatest mysteries: what sank the Khan's great fleet?" - from the dj. Vg in dj. 20.00
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BEACH, Joseph Perkins) DELGADO, James P., ed and notes. Log of the Apollo : Joseph Perkins Beach's Journal of the Voyage of the Ship Apollo from New York to San Francisco 1849. ltd ed.
Book Club of California, San Francisco:, 1986,
(BEACH, Joseph Perkins). The Log of the Apollo : Joseph Perkins Beach's Journal of the Voyage of the Ship Apollo from New York to San Francisco 1849. Edited and annotated by James P. Delgado. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986. Pp 122. Tipped in frontis., 8 pages of plates (4 folding).8vo, blue cloth, paper labels to front and spine. An attractive and fascin ating souvenir of the great migration attendant on the California gold rushof 1849-1850. The majority of the text presents Beach's log of the passage from New York to San Francisco, offering a privileged glimpse of the socia l conditions of the period. It then examines an aspect of San Francisco's unique urban development by tracing the Apollo's conversion into a shore-side warehouse, and her ultimate integration into the city's fabric. With notes on an archaeological investigation of her remains, and an extensive bibliography. One inch tear to front inner hinge, corners slightly bumped, else vg. 185.00
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DELGADO, James P. NEWMAN, Peter C. (Foreword by). Racers and Rovers : 100 Years of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. in dj.
Douglas & McIntyre, 2003, ISBN:1-55054-988-X
DELGADO, James P. Racers and Rovers : 100 Years of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. Foreword by Peter C. Newman. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre,(2003). Pp 212, including frontis., illustrated endpapers with current mem bers names listed, and numerous b/w and/or colour illustrations to text, some full page. 4to, blue cloth. "A passion for boats and boating led to the formation of the Vancouver Yacht Club in 1903, just seventeen years after Vancouver was incorporated. In 1906, the club was granted a Royal Charter and became the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. In 2003, club members celebrate a hundred years of recreational sailing and power boating in and around the west coast, as well as competing in various Olympic and Paralympic races, and word championships events. Lavishly illustrated with 122 colour and 106 black-and-white photos, Racers and Rovers tells the story of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, its famous members and its famous boats." -from the dust jacket. Vg in dj. 40.00
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