num_pages: 272
description: Thrill to a bakers dozen of true adventures of the seatales filled with salt spray blood-and-thunder and man-overboard-action all guaranteed to satisfy the hardiest armchair adventurer. Researched from ships logs manuscripts newspaper accounts and historical records and penned by Richard Dillon a gifted storyteller and one of Californias finest historians. Heres a sampling:San Franciscos Own PirateThe story of Captain Bully Hayes who had a habit of running off with other mens shipsand sometimes their women.The Odyssey of Bernard Gilboy.How a courageous publicity dodging navigator alone in an eighteen-foot open craft sailed from San Francisco to Australia without touching land en route.Shanghai Days in FriscoHow 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.
language: English
title: Embarcadero: True Tales of Sea Adventure from 1849 to 1906
publisher: The Write Thought