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    Type
    Chronicle
    Signed By
    Signed By The Author
    Signed
    Yes
    Narrative Type
    Nonfiction
    Features
    Dust Jacket, 1st Edition, Signed
    Original Language
    English
    Country/Region of Manufacture
    America
    Edition
    First Edition
    Vintage
    Yes
    ISBN
    9780670032310

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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Penguin Publishing Group
    ISBN-10
    067003231X
    ISBN-13
    9780670032310
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    13038727117

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Sea of Glory : America's Voyage of Discovery, the U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
    Number of Pages
    480 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    United States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Expeditions & Discoveries, United States / General
    Publication Year
    2003
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
    Author
    Nathaniel Philbrick
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.5 in
    Item Weight
    29.7 Oz
    Item Length
    9.3 in
    Item Width
    6.3 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2003-050178
    Dewey Edition
    21
    Grade From
    Twelfth Grade
    Dewey Decimal
    910/.973/09034
    Synopsis
    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, winner of the National Book Award, he probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in a cinematic epic of adventure, he writes about the expedition that attempted to tame those dangers, only to find itself at the mercy of a tempestuous commander. The U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 was one of the most ambitious undertakings of the nineteenth century and one of the largest voyages of discovery the Western world had ever seen -- six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds that included botanists, geologists, mapmakers, and biologists, all under the command of the young, brash Lieutenant Charles Wilkes. Their goal was to cover the Pacific Ocean, top to bottom, and to plant the American flag around the world. Four years after embarking, they returned to the United States having accomplished this and much more. They discovered a new southern continent, which Wilkes would name Antarctica. They were the first Americans to survey the treacherous Columbia River, the first to chart dozens of newly discovered islands all across the Pacific. They explored volcanoes in Hawaii, confirmed Charles Darwin's theory of the formation of coral atolls, and collected thousands of specimens that eventually became the foundation of the Smithsonian's scientific collections. This was an enterprise that should have been as celebrated and revered as the expeditions of Lewis and Clark. Philbrick explains for the first time why the "Ex. Ex." vanished from the national memory. Using new sources, including a secret journal, Philbrick reconstructs the darker saga that official reports, which focused on the Ex. Ex.'s accomplishments, never told. The story pivots on Charles Wilkes -- simultaneously ambitious, proud, petty, and courageous, a self-destructive dynamo who undermines his own prodigious feats by alienating his crew and officers, fighting battles with his sponsors, and jealously guarding what should have been a proud national legacy. Against him stands William Reynolds, a promising young officer who signs on to the voyage filled with enthusiasm and admiration for Wilkes and ends it in bitter disillusion, finally facing his former commander in a sensational courtroom confrontation. Philbrick combines meticulous scholarship with spellbinding human drama in a tale that circles the globe: from the palm-fringed beaches of the South Pacific to the icy waters off Antarctica to the stunning Pacific Northwest coastline. He takes us under sail and inside the heads of Wilkes and his officers. We feel the excitement of discovery -- of climbing down into a smoldering volcano or looking out from a tall mast and spying a new continent. We feel the drama of terrifying encounters with hostile and dangerous natives. And at the end, we are grateful to have this piece of our history restored at last, in a magnificent American saga. Book jacket.
    LC Classification Number
    GN663.P48 2003

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