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Excerpt from Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the SeasI believe that the most instructive form of reading is biography. In the story of a man's life one can see in quick review the struggle that man went through to attain or to fail to attain his heart's desire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important his...

Excerpt from Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the SeasI believe that the most instructive form of reading is biography. In the story of a man's life one can see in quick review the struggle that man went through to attain or to fail to attain his heart's desire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important his...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The second volume of this authoritative biography of America's first admiral examines the last ten years of David Glasgow Farragut's life, which included the period of the Civil War. It discusses the gross inefficiency and waste in the conduct of war, in the North as well as the South, of jealous ambition and malicious criticism, of lukewarm support of the government, lack of cooperation between the Army and Navy, and the inroads upon morale m...

The first volume of Lewis' masterful biography of David Glasgow Farragut's long career in the U.S, Navy covers his life before the Civil War. Farragut served with Captain David Porter in the USS "Essex", cruised in the Mediterranean, hunted pirates in the Caribbean, almost died of yellow fever, observed the French bombardment of Vera Cruz, sailed into Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Rio de Janeiro when revolution threatened those cities, fought ...