Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition
Author : Charles Wilkes
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Antarctica
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Author : Charles Wilkes
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Antarctica
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Author : John Charles Frémont
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Page : 752 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1845
Category : America
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Describes the author explorations in the Oregon and California territory from 1842 to 1846. Contains detailed descriptions of the geography, botany, and other scientific findings of the regions.
Author : John Charles Frémont
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Discoveries in geography
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Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1440649103
"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
Author : William Ragan Stanton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520025578
The expedition travelled to Antarctica, the South Pacific, the Atlantic and the coasts of what are now Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
Author : John Charles Frémont
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : George Musalas Colvocoresses
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1855
Category : United States Exploring Expedition
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Author : Horatio Hale
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Page : 714 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Charles Wilkes
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780342288953
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Author : Edmund Bernard Joyce
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0643103325
Reveals for the first time the true extent and limits of the scientific achievements of the Burke and Wills Expedition.