Ploughing the South Sea
Subtitle: A History of Merchant Shipping on the West Coast of South America
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: February 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781420829853
Subjects: American history; Latin America - South America; History; History - General History; History: World; South America; Cultural Region/Latin America; History / General History; History / South America; Merchant marine; Pacific Coast (South America); Shipping
First sentence: The mention of trade between Spain and her Latin American possessions in the first half of the 16th Century usually conjures up visions of a one-way traffic to the mother country in vast quantities of gold and silver.