Distinguishing between the discoverer and the explorer, the eminent American historian surveys the American tradition of exploration, identifying Amerca's salient contribution to human life as its vision-expanding willingness to seek out and enter into the unknown
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Condition: very good, very good. First American Edition. Second Printing. 22 cm, 102, red mark on bottom edge Boorstin's Reith Lectures in 1975. He distinguishes between discoverers (the end of a search) and explorers (the beginning of a search). He sees America as the source of the explorer mentality, and finds we are still exploring. The author was a Pulitzer prize winner, museum director, and Librarian of Congress. Seller Inventory # 24120
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