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

by Philbrick, Nathaniel

• ISBN13: 9780670032310
• ISBN10: 067003231X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-10
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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. He is director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and a leading authority on the history of Nantucket, where he lives with his wife and two children

Table of Contents

Preface: Young Ambition	p. xv
The Great South Sea	p. 3
The Deplorable Expedition	p. 17
Most Glorious Hopes	p. 43
At Sea	p. 63
The Turning Point	p. 87
Commodore of the Pacific	p. 117
Antarctica	p. 149
A New Continent	p. 169
The Cannibal Isles	p. 189
Massacre at Malolo	p. 213
Mauna Loa	p. 233
The Wreck of the Peacock	p. 259
Homeward Bound	p. 287
Reckoning	p. 303
This Thing Called Science	p. 331
Legacy	p. 347
Epilogue	p. 361
Notes	p. 365
Selected Bibliography	p. 415
Acknowledgments	p. 437
Index	p. 441
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