Download or read book The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838 1842 written by William Ragan Stanton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expedition travelled to Antarctica, the South Pacific, the Atlantic and the coasts of what are now Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
Download or read book Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition written by Charles Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Download or read book United States Exploring Expeditions written by John Stilwell Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 Under the Command of Charles Wilkes written by Horatio Hale and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frozen in Time written by John Geiger and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The amazing true story of a doomed Arctic voyage-- and the secrets preserved in ice"--Cover.
Download or read book The Wilkes Expedition written by David B. Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Custer s Gold written by Donald Jackson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of military life of troops with General George Custer during his successful search for gold on Sioux lands in the Black Hills in Dakota territory.
Download or read book Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition written by Charles Wilkes and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea written by William Francis Lynch and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 1628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS written by VIOLA HERMAN J and published by Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press. This book was released on 1985-11-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Preface by the editor written by Meriwether Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis and Clark's Expedition from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean was the first governmental exploration of the "Great West." The history of this undertaking is the personal narrative and official report of the first white men who crossed the continent between and British and Spanish possessions.
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Download or read book Labyrinth of Ice written by Buddy Levy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Outdoor Book Awards Winner Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award “A thrilling and harrowing story. If it’s a cliche to say I couldn’t put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn’t put this book down.” —Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins “Polar exploration is utter madness. It is the insistence of life where life shouldn’t exist. And so, Labyrinth of Ice shows you exactly what happens when the unstoppable meets the unmovable. Buddy Levy outdoes himself here. The details and story are magnificent.” —Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge—vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness—as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship scheduled to return at the end of the year. Only nothing came. 250 miles south, a wall of ice prevented any rescue from reaching them. Provisions thinned and a second winter descended. Back home, Greely’s wife worked tirelessly against government resistance to rally a rescue mission. Months passed, and Greely made a drastic choice: he and his men loaded the remaining provisions and tools onto their five small boats, and pushed off into the treacherous waters. After just two weeks, dangerous floes surrounded them. Now new dangers awaited: insanity, threats of mutiny, and cannibalism. As food dwindled and the men weakened, Greely's expedition clung desperately to life. Labyrinth of Ice tells the true story of the heroic lives and deaths of these voyagers hell-bent on fame and fortune—at any cost—and how their journey changed the world.
Download or read book History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis Clarke to the Sources of the Missouri Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean written by Meriwether Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Lewis Clark written by Gary Allen Hood and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than sixty paintings, drawings, and prints inspired during the sixty-five years of exploration in the West after the Corps of Discovery completed its epic journey are featured in this collection of historical artwork by George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Seth Eastman, Charles Bird King, and other notable artists of the nineteenth-century American West.
