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- catalog abstract "In New Lands, New Men, the third volume in his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, one of America's leading historians tells the dramatic story of three centuries of exploration that witnessed Europeans exploring the Pacific and Northwest, Americans setting out across their own immense continent, and, finally, Americans exploring new worlds: the oceans, Japan, the polar regions. Willam H. Goetzmann writes in absorbing detail about the remarkable adventures of the explorers and the explosive rise of American science. America was truly exploration's nation -- a culture of endless possibilities, continually looking forward in the direction of the new. New Lands, New Men illuminates America's rise to cultural and scientific prominence and transforms our understanding of America's role in world history. - Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8930655.
- catalog coverage "United States Territorial expansion.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "In New Lands, New Men, the third volume in his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, one of America's leading historians tells the dramatic story of three centuries of exploration that witnessed Europeans exploring the Pacific and Northwest, Americans setting out across their own immense continent, and, finally, Americans exploring new worlds: the oceans, Japan, the polar regions. Willam H. Goetzmann writes in absorbing detail about the remarkable adventures of the explorers and the explosive rise of American science. America was truly exploration's nation -- a culture of endless possibilities, continually looking forward in the direction of the new. New Lands, New Men illuminates America's rise to cultural and scientific prominence and transforms our understanding of America's role in world history. - Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Prologue -- Book one : The book of the continent. The cosmic voyagers -- The North American adventure -- A continental consciousness -- The fur trader as explorer -- Humboldt's children -- Portfolio 1 : New lands -- Book two : The book of the oceans. The whole world is an America, a new world -- Exploration and empires for science -- Two roads to discovery : an intellectual drama -- From Manifest Destiny to survival of the fittest -- Book three : The book of time. Portfolio 2 : New men -- Time and the heroic age of geological exploration -- On, beyond Greenland's icy mountains.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 528 :".
- catalog hasFormat "New lands, new men.".
- catalog identifier "0876111487 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "New lands, new men.".
- catalog isPartOf "Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore Texas history reprint series ; no. 16".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin, Tex. : Texas State Historical Association,".
- catalog relation "New lands, new men.".
- catalog spatial "United States Territorial expansion.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "910/.973 20".
- catalog subject "Discoveries in geography American.".
- catalog subject "Discoveries in geography.".
- catalog subject "E179.5 .G63 1995".
- catalog subject "Explorers United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Prologue -- Book one : The book of the continent. The cosmic voyagers -- The North American adventure -- A continental consciousness -- The fur trader as explorer -- Humboldt's children -- Portfolio 1 : New lands -- Book two : The book of the oceans. The whole world is an America, a new world -- Exploration and empires for science -- Two roads to discovery : an intellectual drama -- From Manifest Destiny to survival of the fittest -- Book three : The book of time. Portfolio 2 : New men -- Time and the heroic age of geological exploration -- On, beyond Greenland's icy mountains.".
- catalog title "New Lands, new men : America and the second great age of discovery / William H. Goetzmann.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".