[PDF.11cf] Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography: A Biography, 1806-1873

Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography: A Biography, 1806-1873

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 | #1806556 in Books |  2015-01-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .90 x6.00 x8.80l,.0 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The Commodore of Thinking Out of the Box|By John Paul Jones (jjones@richmond.edu)|This is an excellent and comprehensive biography, exhaustively researched and thoughtfully organized. John Grady paints a word picture revealing the many facets of the nineteenth century American naval officer known as the Pathfinder of the Seas. History is replete with figures noteworthy for the| |"This book is an interesting account of the political and scientific battles Maury waged to promote more quantitative and predictive science. Recommended"--Choice; "well-researched...recommend[ed]"--The Journal of Military History; "Grady's volume is the first

In becoming "a useful man" on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind the Old and New worlds with the laying of the transatlantic cable, forcefully advocated Southern rights in a troubled union, and preached Manifest Destiny from the Arctic to Cape Horn. And he revolutionized warfare in perfec...

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