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

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Pp. xiv, 238 plus 33 diagrams, maps and photographs. Appendices, bibliography, index. Tan cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Spine of jacket faded. Drawing on excavations of buried ships and collapsed buildings from the Gold Rush period, the author recreates San Francisco's unique maritime landscape, shedding new light on the city's remarkable rise from a small village to a boomtown of thousands in the three short years, 1848 to 1851. "Delgado, a versatile maritime historian, is a remarkable authority on the San Francisco waterfront..." (Bob Chandler)..