New lands, new men : America and the second great age of discovery

by William H. Goetzmann

Paper Book, 1986

Status

Available

Call number

E179.5 .G63 1986

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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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.
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Physical description

xii, 528 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

0670810681 / 9780670810680

Barcode

34662000521770
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