Displaying 1 of 1 1998 Format: Book Author: De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955. Title: The course of empire / by Bernard DeVoto ; with an introductory essay on the author by Wallace Stegner ; maps by Erwin Raisz. Edition: 1st Mariner books ed. Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Description: xxxv, 647 pages : maps ; 21 cm Summary: Tracing North American exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, DeVoto tells in classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. Subjects: United States -- Territorial expansion. United States -- Discovery and exploration. Notes: Originally published: ©1952. "A Mariner book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-635) and index. Contents: Children of the sun -- Spectrum of knowledge -- Iron men -- Heartland -- Converging frontiers -- World turned upside down -- Twelve-year armistice -- Prime Meridian -- Equinoctial tide -- More perfect union -- Westward the course of empire -- Passage to India. LCCN: * 88034456 ISBN: 0395924987 9780395924983 0395510147 Other Number: 39956476 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 998161 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 973.1 De Voto Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
