Author: WALTER A. MCDOUGALL
Title: Let the Sea Make a Noise...
Description: HarperCollins, 2004. Paperback. Pp: 793. In this exceptionally innovative work, Walter McDougall projects on a large screen four hundred years of exciting voyages of discovery, pioneering feats, engineering marvels, political plots and business chicanery, racial clashes and brutal wars. It is a chronicle complete with little-known facts and turning points, but always focused on the remarkable people at the center of events, among them the America-loving Japanese ambassador to Washington on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Russian builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and a Hawaiian queen during the first period of Western competition for the islands. Let the Sea Make a Noise. is a gripping account of the rise and fall of the empires in the last, vast, unexplored corner of the habitable earth - an area occupying one-sixth of the globe. There is no other book that covers these same subjects in this wealth of detail and with such chronological scope. ISBN: 9780060578206. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
Keywords: 9780060578206
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Title: Let the Sea Make a Noise...
Description: HarperCollins, 2004. Paperback. Pp: 793. In this exceptionally innovative work, Walter McDougall projects on a large screen four hundred years of exciting voyages of discovery, pioneering feats, engineering marvels, political plots and business chicanery, racial clashes and brutal wars. It is a chronicle complete with little-known facts and turning points, but always focused on the remarkable people at the center of events, among them the America-loving Japanese ambassador to Washington on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Russian builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and a Hawaiian queen during the first period of Western competition for the islands. Let the Sea Make a Noise. is a gripping account of the rise and fall of the empires in the last, vast, unexplored corner of the habitable earth - an area occupying one-sixth of the globe. There is no other book that covers these same subjects in this wealth of detail and with such chronological scope. ISBN: 9780060578206. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
Keywords: 9780060578206
Price: EUR 17.00 = appr. US$ 18.48 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2067197
- Book number: 2067197
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