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.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
A professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Walter A. McDougall is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heavens and the Earth and Let the Sea Make a Noise. . . . He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage children.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
US$ 3.00
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # newMercantile_0060578203
Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition. Seller Inventory # bk0060578203xvz189zvxnew
Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-0060578203-new
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0060578203
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0060578203
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0060578203
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Prompt service guaranteed. Seller Inventory # Clean0060578203
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0060578203
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2.15. Seller Inventory # Q-0060578203