Author : Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422367746
Delano's Voyages of Commerce and Discovery by Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves Pdf
In 1817, Amaso Delano (1763-1823), American merchant & seafarer, published his ¿Narrative¿ of three extraordinary trading voyages. He was a descendant of the shipbuilding Delanos of Duxbury, Massachusetts, a family that was engaged in Far Eastern trade for several generations & whose members included forebears of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This account, edited by his descendant Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves & supplemented with archival illustrations & new maps, is a superbly readable chronicle of American enterprise & adventures. Includes a Foreword by William T. La Moy, director of the James Duncan Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, & editor, ¿Peabody Essex Museum Collections.¿ Illustrations.