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Nathaniel Philbrick "Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842"
Viking Adult 2003 067003231X / 9780670032310 Hardcover Very Good
"First Edition, tight binding, light creasing to Dust Jacket, page 447 is creased, () In 1838, the U.S. government launched the largest discovery voyage the Western world had ever seen-6 sailing vessels and 346 men bound for the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Four years later, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, or Ex. Ex. as it was known, returned with an astounding array of accomplishments and discoveries: 87,000 miles logged, 280 Pacific islands surveyed, 4,000 zoological specimens collected, including 2,000 new species, and the discovery of the continent of Antarctica. And yet at a human level, the project was a disaster-not only had 28 men died and 2 ships been lost, but a series of sensational courts-martial had also ensued that pitted the expedition's controversial leader, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, against almost every officer under his command. Though comparable in importance and breadth of success to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Ex. Ex. has been largely forgotten. Now ID: mon0000110341"
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Nathaniel Philbrick "Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842"
Penguin (Non-Classics) 2004 0142004839 / 9780142004838 Paperback Like New
"clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases,() America's first frontier was not the West: it was the sea-and 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 seen-the 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 Ocean-and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution, and much more. ID: mon0000106609"
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