Shanghaied in San Francisco by Bill Pickelhaupt
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Overview: Bill Pickelhaupt, in this reprint of a classic, tells the true story of shanghaiing-kidnapping men for a voyage at sea after they were slipped drugged liquor-and the politicians who let it happen in San Francisco for over sixty years. Includes victims’ first-hand accounts and 50 photographs and drawings.
The politics and experiences of shanghaiing in San Francisco from 1887-1890 are related in a fine history which gathers the accounts of men who were shanghaied as well as considering the social and political elements of shanghaiing. Primary materials provide the foundation for a lively San Francisco history which provides a specific focus on a little-covered topic. — Midwest Book Review
We highly recommend this book for several reasons: 1) it is hugely entertaining and, unlike many books on the subject, factual; 2) it is a well-researched book that deals straightforwardly with one of the most colorful times in the history of San Francisco; and 3) it shows what can be done with the plethora of information at the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library. Author Bill Pickelhaupt got the idea for this book while working there. He read an oral history of an old sailor who had been shanghaied and the idea took off. Latitude 38, December 1996. Also reviewed by the Chinese language newspaper Sing Tao Daily on December 15, 1996. –Latitude 38, December 1996
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Ship History
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