Sea of glory : America's voyage of discovery : the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

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Sea of glory : America's voyage of discovery : the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

Title remainder

America's voyage of discovery : the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

Statement of responsibility

Nathaniel Philbrick

Creator

• Philbrick, Nathaniel

Subject

• Ethnological expeditions
• Ethnological expeditions -- History -- 19th century
• Ethnology
• Ethnology -- Oceania -- History -- 19th century
• Ethnology -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• History
• 1800 - 1899
• United States
• United States Exploring Expedition
• United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
• Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877
• Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877
• Oceania

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"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 atoll, and collected thousands of specimens that eventually became the foundation of the Smithsonian's scientific collections."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

NMP

Dewey number

910.973/09034

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

GN663

LC item number

.P48 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography