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Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography a Biography, 1806-1873

Autor John Grady
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2014
In becoming a useful man on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontained Maury focused light 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. Late in life, he revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically detonated mines. Maury's eagerness to go to the public in person and in print on the questions of the day riled powerful men in business and politics, and the United States, Confederate and Royal navies. They dismissed him as the Man on the Hill. Over his career, Maury more than once ran afoul of Jefferson Davis, and Stephen R. Mallory, chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee and later secretary of the Confederate States Navy. Through the political, social and scientific struggles of his time, however, Maury had his share of powerful allies, like President John Tyler; but by the early 1870s they too were in eclipse or in the grave.
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ISBN-13: 9780786478217
ISBN-10: 0786478217
Pagini: 277
Dimensiuni: 152 x 224 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: McFarland & Company

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