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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100142004839

ISBN-139780142004838

eBay Product ID (ePID)30794806

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Book TitleSea of Glory : America's Voyage of Discovery, the U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicUnited States / 19th Century, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Expeditions & Discoveries, Oceania

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorNathaniel Philbrick

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-050178

ReviewsFascinating and meticulous... A wonderful retelling. ( The New York Times Book Review ) A breathtaking account of one of historyÆs greatest adventures. ( Entertainment Weekly ) A worthy successor to In the Heart of the Sea . ( The Wall Street Journal ) Sea of Glory is a grand saga of scientific and nautical accomplishment. ( Newsweek ), "Fascinating and meticulous . . . A wonderful retelling." --The New York Times Book Review "A breathtaking account of one of history's greatest adventures." -- Entertainment Weekly "A worthy successor to In the Heart of the Sea ." -- The Wall Street Journal " Sea of Glory is a grand saga of scientific and nautical accomplishment." -- Newsweek, Fascinating and meticulous... A wonderful retelling. (The New York Times Book Review) A breathtaking account of one of history’s greatest adventures. (Entertainment Weekly) A worthy successor to In the Heart of the Sea. (The Wall Street Journal) Sea of Gloryis a grand saga of scientific and nautical accomplishment. (Newsweek)

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal910/.973/09034

Grade ToUP

Table Of ContentPreface: Young Ambition The Great South Sea The Deplorable Expedition Most Glorious Hopes At Sea The Turning Point Commodore of the Pacific Antarctica A New Continent The Cannibal Isles Massacre at Malolo Mauna Loa The Wreck of the Peacock Homeward Bound Reckoning This Thing Called Science Legacy Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Synopsis"A treasure of a book."--David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye . A New York Times Notable Book 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. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has--until now--been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize

LC Classification NumberGN663.P48 2003