A great story of discovery and adventure in the tradition of Longitude Maritime navigation remained largely a matter of guesswork until well into the 19th century, and making a voyage meant following a series of all-too-often disastrous hunches. Changing that became the lifelong obsession of the brilliant, irascible geographer Matthew Fontaine Maury, whose career both aided and mirrored America's rise as a maritime power. With his controversial appointment as the first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory in 1840, he at last found his life's work. While others built railroads across the trackless interior, Maury mapped the highways of wind and current over the previously trackless sea. In Tracks in the Sea, Chester G. Hearn uses Maury's career as a window on the 19th century, including the brief but glorious clipper-ship era of the 1850s, the rise of steam and steel, the Civil War and the destruction of the U.S. merchant fleet, and the points of intersection with some of the most colorful and influential people of the time, including presidents, congressmen, military leaders, scientists, explorers, merchants, and writers.

Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans

History

Hearn,Chester G.

Americas

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Navigation at sea was a matter of guesswork until well into the 19th century. Changing that became the obsession of Matthew Fontaine Maury. While others built railroads, Maury mapped highways of wind and current over the seas. Hearn uses Maury's career as a window on America's maritime development in the 19th century, including the clipper-ship era of the 1850s, the rise of steam and steel, and the Civil War.

Tracks in the Sea : Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans

Hearn, Chester

Military

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Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable

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Sorties Into Hell: The Hidden War On Chichi Jima

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Rixey's suspicion of a cover-up was later substantiated by a group of Americans returning from Japan who had lived on Chichi Jima for generations. It would take five months of gathering testimony to uncover all the details. Thirty war criminals were eventually tried at Guam in 1947, five of whom met their fate on the gallows.

Sorties into Hell: The Hidden War on Chichi Jima

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Zenith Press

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The Illustrated Directory of the United States Navy

Zenith Pr

From its Revolutionary War beginnings as the Continental Army to its leadership of the Coalition of the Willing” in today’s Iraq, for more than 200 years the United States Army has fulfilled its solemn charge: to provide for the common defense, at home and abroad. To a significant degree the U.S. Army’s story is the story of the United States, as becomes clear in this absorbing, illustrated history of the U. S. Army from its beginnings in a rag-tag force of colonial militia to its current incarnation as the world’s most powerful and sophisticated land-combat force. With an emphasis on post-Vietnam operations and detailed information on the technological component of the force’s military might, distinguished historian Chester Hearn follows the U. S. Army through its combat historythe American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, various Indian wars, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf war, and Afghanistan and Iraqoffering a complete and thoroughly fascinating account of an armed force ever remaking itself to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world.

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Navy: An Illustrated History: The U.S. Navy from 1775 to the 21st Century

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Marines: An Illustrated History : The U.S. Marine Corps from 1775 to the 21st Century

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Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans

Tracks in the Sea : Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans

Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable

Sorties into Hell: The Hidden War on Chichi Jima

Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable

Illustrated Directory of the United States Marine Corps

The Illustrated Directory of the United States Navy

Army: An Illustrated History: the U.s. Army from 1775 to the 21st Century

Navy: An Illustrated History: The U.S. Navy from 1775 to the 21st Century

Marines: An Illustrated History : The U.S. Marine Corps from 1775 to the 21st Century