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Philbrick, Nathaniel. Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Nov. 2003. 444p. index. Viking, $27.95 (0-670-03231-X). 910.
Philbrick, director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies, is the author of the best-selling In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2000), which won the National Book Award. His new book is concerned with "America's forgotten frontier, the Pacific Ocean." Specifically, he follows the dramatic story of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, which set out in 1838 in six sailing vessels, from Norfolk, Virginia, on a research voyage that would last four significant years. Their mission was "to scour the Southern Hemisphere of the earth for new ...
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