Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen - the US Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842. In his best-selling In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Īmerica's first frontier was not the West it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. 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 best-selling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. "A treasure of a book." (David McCullough)
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