Nathaniel Philbrick, a most extraordinary
author and maritime historian, is introduced - at minute 13:15 - for discussion of the
Mayflower's legacy.
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gesR7yGhvLg&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/gesR7yGhvLg&rel=0</a>]]>Here is bookjacket promotional information about my favorite Philbrick book
Sea of Glory, one of the best studies in the convergence of leadership, technology and exploration ever written. Sounds like our times but it's about the 1838 Exploring Expedition which put Antarctica on the map, ascended the world's tallest mountain (measured from base to peak) Mauna Loa and brought back to the USA the nucleus of the collection of scientific data that came to be known as the Smithsonian Institute:
Sea of Glory" book jacket info:
"America’s first frontier was not the West; it was the sea—and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. A journey on a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean—and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution, and much more."
http://www.nathanielphilbrick.com/links.html
