"The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted men stout of heart, and ready of resource, to brave the perils of wilderness and sea that they might set their feet where man never trod before." (George Iles in the preface)
This last in the series of Little Masterpieces of Science to be recorded for LibriVox includes essays by or about the explorations of Christopher Columbus, Lewis & Clark, Zebulon Pike, Charles Wilkes, Clarence King and John Wesley Powell. - Summary by J. M. Smallheer
This last in the series of Little Masterpieces of Science to be recorded for LibriVox includes essays by or about the explorations of Christopher Columbus, Lewis & Clark, Zebulon Pike, Charles Wilkes, Clarence King and John Wesley Powell. - Summary by J. M. Smallheer
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Preface
02:37 - Chapter 2
Columbus Discovers America by Justin Winsor
37:14 - Chapter 3
Arrival at the Pacific Ocean, 1805 by Lewis and Clarke
37:12 - Chapter 4
The Sources of the Mississippi by Zebulon M. Pike
32:09 - Chapter 5
Manila in 1842 by Charles Wilkes
42:03 - Chapter 6
The Ascent of Mount Tyndall by Clarence King
57:59 - Chapter 7
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado is Explored by John Wesley Powell
1:12:37