Embarcadero: True Tales of Sea Adventure from 1849 to 1906

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Embarcadero: True Tales of Sea Adventure from 1849 to 1906

Thrill to a bakerâ€™s dozen of true adventures of the seaâ€”tales filled with salt spray, blood-and-thunder, and man-overboard-action all guaranteed to satisfy the hardiest armchair adventurer.

Researched from shipsâ€™ logs, manuscripts, newspaper accounts and historical records and penned by Richard Dillon a gifted storyteller and one of Californiaâ€™s finest historians.

Hereâ€™s a sampling:

â€œSan Franciscoâ€™s Own Pirateâ€
The story of Captain Bully Hayes, who had a habit of running off with other menâ€™s shipsâ€”and sometimes their women.

â€œThe Odyssey of Bernard Gilboy.â€
How a courageous, publicity dodging navigator, alone in an eighteen-foot open craft, sailed from San Francisco to Australia without touching land en route.

â€œShanghai Days in Friscoâ€
How crimps like Shanghai Kelly perfected the fine art of kidnaping sailors for the dreaded China run and made East Street (as the Embarcadero was called for a time) a thoroughfare to be given a wide berth after dusk.

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