Resources

Robert E. Coker, “Habits and economic relations of the guano birds of Peru,” Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56.2298 (1920) 449-511
 
Gregory T. Cushman, Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
 
Susanna Fisher, The Makers of the Blueback Charts (Ithaca, NY: Regatta Press, 2001)
 
Alexander Gardner, Rays of Sunlight From South America (Washington, DC: Philp & Solomons, 1865)
 
David Hollett, More Precious than Gold: The Story of the Peruvian Guano Trade (Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008)
 
Pete Lesher, “A Load of Guano: Baltimore and the Fertilizer Trade in the Nineteenth Century,” The Northern MarinerXVIII.3-4 (July-October 2008) 121-128
 
Basil Lubbock, The Nitrate Clippers (Glasgow, Scotland: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1953)
 
Lewis B. Nelson, History of the U.S. Fertilizer Industry (Muscle Shoals, AL: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1990)
 
H.C. Paul Rohrbach et al., A Century and a Quarter of Reederei F. Laeisz: Owners of the “Flying P” Nitrate Clippers(Flagstaff, AZ: J.C. Colton Co., 1957)
 
Jimmy M. Scaggs, The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1994)
 
R. Gerard Ward, American Activities in the Central Pacific: 1790-1870 (Ridgewood, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1966), Vol. 1
 
 

From The Norfolk Post, Volume 1, No. 165, 2 January 1866, p 4