Description
Navigation at sea used to be an issue of guesswork till well into the 19th century. Changing that become the obsession of Matthew Fontaine Maury. Even as others built railroads, Maury mapped highways of wind and current over the seas. Hearn uses Maury’s career as a window on The united states’s maritime development within the 19th century, including the clipper-ship era of the 1850s, the upward thrust of steam and steel, and the Civil War.
ISBN13: 9780071427906
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