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    The passagemaking bible updated to help you live your long-distance voyaging dreamsFirst published in 1975, Robert Beebe’s Voyaging Under Power revolutionized long-distance cruising, encouraging powerboaters to enjoy what was once exclusive to sailboats and their crews: crossing oceans to exotic, interesting, and beautiful places in comfort with a minimum of problems and expense. Now power ... Leer más

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  • Write Long and Beautiful Letters

    The Vallejos' Californio Correspondence, 1846–1888

    Series series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series
    The experiences of Mexicans who were living in California when it was annexed by the United States is a crucial element of the history of the American Southwest. These Californios, as they called themselves, made California diverse and multicultural from the moment it became part of the United States.The Vallejos of Sonoma were one of the most prominent of these Californio families. This volume ... Leer más

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  • Recuerdos

    Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769–1849 (2 Volume Set)

    Series series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series
    A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well—a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state’s recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of California before the gold rush by someone who resided ... Leer más

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  • Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

    Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California

    Series series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series
    Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California. In 1874–75, Vallejo, working with historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, composed a five-volume history of Alta California—a monumental work that would be the most complete eyewitness ... Leer más

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  • Junípero Serra

    California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary

    Series series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series
    Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz bring this complex figure to life and illuminate the Spanish period of ... Leer más

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  • Testimonios

    Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848

    When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—sometimes almost as an afterthought. These interviews were eventually archived at the University of California, ... Leer más

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  • Lands of Promise and Despair

    Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846

    This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses, and fandangos—but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss. Conflicts ... Leer más

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  • Spain in the Southwest

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