Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

xxv, 452 pp. 8vo. After chronicling the sinking of the whaleship Essex in In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick attempts to rescue from obscurity the U.S. Exploring Expedition's 1838-1842 circumnavigation of the world and its cartographic and scientific accomplishments.