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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

by Nathaniel Philbrick

ISBN13: 9781440649103
ISBN10: 1440649103
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Among the best books of this or any other year.Los Angeles Times Book Review Americas first frontier was not the West; it was the seaand no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seenthe U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838 1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Oceanand ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution, and much more.

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Traces the 1838 discovery voyage that resulted in the western world's survey of 87,000 ocean miles, 280 Pacific islands, numerous zoological discoveries, and the finding of Antarctica, a journey that was marked by tragic deaths, the losses of two ships, and controversial court martials. Reprint.

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Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the New York Times bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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ISBN:: 9781440649103
Subtitle:: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Publisher:: Penguin Books
Author:: Philbrick, Nathaniel
Author:: Nathaniel Philbrick
Subject:: History : United States - General
Subject:: Maritime History
Subject:: United States - 19th Century
Subject:: Oceania
Subject:: Expeditions & Discoveries
Subject:: United States - Antebellum Era
Subject:: Ethnology
Subject:: History
Subject:: United States - General
Subject:: Ethnological expeditions - History -
Subject:: Ethnology -- United States -- History.
Subject:: Arctic and Antarctic-General
Subject:: Nautical - General
Subject:: Nautical-Nautical Lore
Subject:: World History-General
Subject:: main_subject
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 20041001
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 452

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