Book Description
The expedition travelled to Antarctica, the South Pacific, the Atlantic and the coasts of what are now Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
Author : William Ragan Stanton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,53 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 : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780142004838
"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 : Charles Wilkes
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Antarctica
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Author : David B. Tyler
Publisher :
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 1968
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ISBN : 9780608135007
Author : VIOLA HERMAN J
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1985-11-17
Category : History
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Account of the activities, chronology, mapping and botanical and zoological collections of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, which mapped 1500 miles of the Antarctic coast and proved that the continent exists. Published in connection with the exhibition 'Magnificent Voyagers' organized by the National Museum of Natural History and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Author : Charles Wilkes (de la marine des États-Unis, Cdt.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Charles Wilkes
Publisher :
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Antarctica
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Author : William Reynolds
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0143039059
One of the finest nineteenth-century first-person narratives of a sea voyage in existence, and a principle source for Sea of Glory, The Private Journal of William Reynolds brings to life the boisterous world traversed by the six vessels that comprised America's first ocean-going voyage of discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. With great eloquence and verve Midshipman William Reynolds describes the harrowing 87,000-mile, four-year circuit of the globe, and relates the story of how the abusive commander of the Ex. Ex., Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, gradually lost the support of his crew. With a seaman's understanding and an artist's appreciation for the wild beauty that surrounds him, the Journal is a tour de force combining meticulous observations with a young man's sense of wonder and, on occasion, terror as he is tossed about by the tremendous seas.
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : Daniel Carl Haskell
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 1942
Category : United States Exploring Expedition
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