Mylar protected dustjacket is tattered at edges and stained on back cover.

Disaster Log of Ships (A pictorial account of shipwrecks, California to Alaska. There are over 200 photos)

GIBBS, Jim

Bonanza Books

New York: Bonanza Books, 1968. Reprint Edition, Hardbound, Small 4to (about 10.5 inches tall), 182 pages. Index to photographs.

West Coast Windjammers In Story and Pictures

A complete look at the Downeasters, seamens missions and boarding house crimps, runners, as well as the great Star Fleet and well-known cannery vessels.

Pacific Square Riggers: Pictorial History of the Great Windships of Yesteryear

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Learn historical facts and enjoy entertaining stories about lighthouses along the coasts of Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, Alaska, and British Columbia. Black-and-white and color photos enhance the detailed text to present a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind look at these maritime structures, including technological breakthroughs and even ghostly hauntings. This detailed narrative takes readers back to the first Pacific Coast lighthouses of the mid-19th century and shows their development through the years as the US endeavored to light the capes and outcrops of the region. Discover the fabulous Fresnel prismatic lenses that were at first illuminated by burning oil and follow their evolution through more modern times. Along the way, you'll learn about ghosts, apparitions, and unsolved mysteries connected with these life-saving beacons. The dramatic, detailed narrative provides armchair adventure for history buffs and those with a special affinity for the sea.

Lighthouses of the Pacific

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Schiffer

The lighthouse keeper has gone the way of the iceman and blacksmith, but in the case of Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, the story remains--a complete history of :Terrible Tilly,: seasoned with salty drama and some hilarious adventure. Gibbs, a former Coastguardsman stationed at the infamous rock off Oregon's northwest shores, knows that wild crag from the inside out, and he has supplemented his account with what happened before he arrived on the scene, and since closure of the light in 1957. Many fine photos keep pace with the action. 145 pages.

Tillamook Light: A True Account of Oregon's Tillamock Rock Lighthouse

Religion & Spirituality

Binford & Mort Pub

Seattle, Washington: Superior Publishing Company, 1971. Hardbound, about 10.75 inches tall by 8.5 wide, 176 pages. Index. 100 years of nautical disasters off the Pacific Coast are shown in historic black and white photographs.

Disaster Log of Ships

Shipwrecks in Paradise

Burbank, California, U.S.A.: Darwin Pubns

Oregon's Salty Coast

Darwin Pubns

There were good times, exhilarating times and sad times...it was an era of beginnings, first times and frontiers by land and sea. Joe Williamson and Jim Gibbs have joined their talents and captured here the magic, nostalgia and panorama of maritime action of Puget Sound in western Washington State. From its first sightings by English explorers George Vancouvre and Peter Puget in 1792, this unique waterway grew in importance as industry, and settlements helped develop it according to European, rather than its original Indian, uses. 335 old photographs of ships, people and early towns and the historical text tie ship and shore together through the story of the settling of this vast woodland area up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Historians will recognize the importance of this appealing book of social, economic and maritime history.

Maritime Memories of Puget Sound

History

Americas

Schiffer Pub. Ltd

History and good, entertaining reading are combined in this presentation of all the lighthouses along the coasts of Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, Alaska and British Columbia. Pages of black and white and colored photographs embellish and outstanding text presenting the special drama, history, color and action that have been so much a part of nautical Americana. Jim Gibbs has provided extraordinary detail and information on the very first lighthouses of the Pacific coast as well as the United States efforts to light the capes and outcrops of the Pacific coast. He presents the fabulous Fresnel prismatic lenses illuminated by oil flames and explains the evolution of the "miracle" aids to navigation that could pierce the fog. The reader is further entertained by exciting stories of ghosts, apparitions and unsolved mysteries connected with these lighthouses. The dramatic text and vast amount of information provided for the reader an enjoyable adventure in the Lighthouses of the Pacific.

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Books by GIBBS, Jim

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Disaster Log of Ships (A pictorial account of shipwrecks, California to Alaska. There are over 200 photos)

West Coast Windjammers In Story and Pictures

Pacific Square Riggers: Pictorial History of the Great Windships of Yesteryear

Lighthouses of the Pacific

Tillamook Light: A True Account of Oregon's Tillamock Rock Lighthouse

Disaster Log of Ships

Shipwrecks in Paradise

Oregon's Salty Coast

Maritime Memories of Puget Sound

Lighthouses of the Pacific