The course of empire / by Bernard DeVoto ; with an introductory essay on the author by Wallace Stegner ; maps by Erwin Raisz.
Record details
- ISBN: 0395924987
- ISBN: 9780395924983
- Physical Description: xxxv, 647 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: c1952. "A Mariner book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 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. |
Summary, etc.: | Tracing North American exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, DeVoto tells in classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. |
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Subject: | United States > Territorial expansion. United States > Discovery and exploration. |
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C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | 973.1 DEV (Text) | 34014129031523 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |