Status
Available
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1986.
Description
History of US participation in explorations of the late 18th and 19th Centuries, exploring Japan, Pacific Islands, the polar regions, etc.
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LibraryThing member Newmans2001
I love history, so I searched diligently for a general or subjected focus that the author was writing for. Then I tried to decide what level or segment of scholarship he was addressing. Determining neither in the first 5th of the book, I skipped to the later chapters and still had a scattered
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feeling even when I already had knowledge of the subject, so I gave it to the library to sell to someone else. Show Less