The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History
Written by John S. Sledge
Narrated by Tom Perkins
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About this audiobook
Gulf events of global historical importance are detailed, such as the only defeat of armed and armored steamships by wooden sailing vessels, the first accurate deep-sea survey and bathymetric map of any ocean basin, the development of shipping containers by a former truck driver frustrated with antiquated loading practices, and the worst environmental disaster in American annals.
Occasionally shifting focus ashore, Sledge explains how people representing a gumbo of ethnicities built some of the world's most exotic cities-Havana, New Orleans, and oft-besieged Veracruz, Mexico's oldest city, founded in 1519 by Hernán Cortes.
John S. Sledge
John S. Sledge is senior architectural historian for the Mobile Historic Development Commission and a member of the National Book Critics Circle. He holds a bachelor's degree in history and Spanish from Auburn University and a master's in historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University. Sledge is the author of six previous books, including Southern Bound: A Gulf Coast Journalist on Books, Writers, and Literary Pilgrimages of the Heart; The Mobile River; and These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War.
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Reviews for The Gulf of Mexico
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I had to read 2 chapters of this book for a university class. I continued to read the entire book because it was wonderfully written and so informative about the coast I now live on. If you are a natural and social history buff I suggest you read it. It can sometimes get a little much on the maritime history (although that is the point of the book) and talking of ships and boats I know nothing about but I learned so much.