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Tracks in the Sea
Chester G. Hearn
其他書名
Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans
出版International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2002
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturySports & Recreation / GeneralSports & Recreation / Water Sports / BoatingTransportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General
ISBN00713682649780071368261
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XasPAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Tracks in the Sea traces the arc of Maury's remarkable life from his birth in 1806 on a hardscrabble Virginia farm, the seventh of nine children, to a navy career culminating in the superintendency of the newly created U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. Self-taught and self-made, as passionate in his condemnation of bureaucratic incompetence as he was in his scientific explorations, Maury earned great admirers who would help his career and great enemies who would strive to sabotage it. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he abandoned his life's work to offer his services to his native South.