Texas Shipwrecks (Images of America)
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- Synopsis
- The Texas coastline and offshore waters are flat, shallow, featureless, and filled with shoals. Texas waters are subjected to extreme weather, not just hurricanes and tropical storms but also northers and seasonal gales. This, combined with two centuries of naval warfare off Texas waters, produced many shipwrecks of all sorts, from Spanish treasure fleets to simple working boats. The ships of pirates, navies, cotton traders, immigrants, fishermen, and oil shippers line the Texas coast, cover the sea bottom off Texas, and blanket the bottom of Texas rivers. Each wreck has a story, romantic or repellent, prosaic or unusual, but all intriguing.
- Copyright:
- 2016
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781439655863
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781467116176
- Publisher:
- Arcadia Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 03/14/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Mark Lardas
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Technology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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