The course of empire

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The course of empire / by Bernard DeVoto ; with an introductory essay on the author by Wallace Stegner ; maps by Erwin Raisz.

De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955 (Author).

Summary:

Tracing North American exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, DeVoto tells in classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation.

Record details

ISBN: 0395924987
ISBN: 9780395924983
Physical Description: xxxv, 647 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Originally published: ©1952.

"A Mariner book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-635) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Children of the sun -- Spectrum of knowledge -- Iron men -- Heartland -- Converging frontiers -- World turned upside down -- Twelve-year armistice -- Prime Meridian -- Equinoctial tide -- More perfect union -- Westward the course of empire -- Passage to India.

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Subject:: United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Discovery and exploration.
Discoveries in geography.
Territorial expansion.
United States.
Genre:: Nonfiction.

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