Preface: Young Ambition

The Great South Sea

The Deplorable Expedition

Most Glorious Hopes

At Sea

The Turning Point

Commodore of the Pacific

Antarctica

A New Continent

The Cannibal Isles

Massacre at Malolo

Mauna Loa

The Wreck of the Peacock

Homeward Bound

Reckoning

This Thing Called Science

Legacy

Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

About the Author

Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award; Mayflower, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Bunker Hill, winner of the New England Book Award; Sea of Glory; The Last Stand; Why Read Moby Dick?; and Away Off Shore. He lives in Nantucket. His latest book is Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution.

Reviews

"Fascinating and meticulous . . . A wonderful retelling."
—The New York Times Book Review

"A breathtaking account of one of history's greatest adventures."
—Entertainment Weekly

"A worthy successor to In the Heart of the Sea."
—The Wall Street Journal

"Sea of Glory is a grand saga of scientific and nautical accomplishment."
—Newsweek

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