Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography
A Biography, 1806-1873
In becoming a useful man” on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontained Maury focused light on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind the Old and New worlds with the laying of the transatlantic cable, forcefully advocated Southern rights in a troubled union, and preached Manifest Destiny from the Arctic to Cape Horn.
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- ISBN: 978-0-7864-7821-7
- EAN: 9780786478217
- Produktnummer: 16546987
- Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 499 g
- Abbildungen: 20 photographs
- Gewicht: 499
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
John Grady , who served as managing editor of Navy Times , has been published in Naval History , the Disunion series in the New York Times , the Times ' book-length collection of essays on the Civil War, the Civil War Monitor's Front Line , and is a contributor to the Naval History and Heritage Command's 150th anniversary of the Civil War blog. A resident of Fairfax, Virginia, USA he continues to write on current defense and national security issues for the Naval Institute, Government Executive, Breaking Defense, and Scout Communications, Inc.
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