num_pages: 848
description: In this exceptionally innovative work, Walter McDougall projects on a large screen four hundred years of exciting voyages of discovery, pioneering feats, engineering marvels, political plots and business chicanery, racial clashes and brutal wars. It is a chronicle complete with little-known facts and turning points, but always focused on the remarkable people at the center of events, among them the America-loving Japanese ambassador to Washington on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Russian builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and a Hawaiian queen during the first period of Western competition for the islands. Let the Sea Make a Noise . . . is a gripping account of the rise and fall of the empires in the last, vast, unexplored corner of the habitable earth -- an area occupying one-sixth of the globe. There is no other book that covers these same subjects in this wealth of detail and with such chronological scope.
language: English
title: Let the Sea Make a Noise...: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur
titlecomplete: Let the Sea Make a Noise...: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur
genres: Japan, Nonfiction, China, American History, History
ratings_count: 104
publisher: Harper Perennial