New lands, new men
Subtitle: America and the second great age of discovery
By: William H. Goetzmann.
Series: The Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore Texas history reprint series ; no. 16
Publisher: Texas State Historical Association
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780876111482
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Explorers -- United States -- History.; Discoveries in geography.; United States -- Territorial expansion.
Description: In New Lands, New Men, the third volume in his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, one of America's leading historians tells the dramatic story of three centuries of exploration that witnessed Europeans exploring the Pacific and Northwest, Americans setting out across their own immense continent, and, finally, Americans exploring new worlds: the oceans, Japan, the polar regions.

William H. Goetzmann writes in absorbing detail about the remarkable adventures of the explorers and the explosive rise of American science. America was truly exploration's nation - a culture of endless possibilities, continually looking forward in the direction of the new. New Lands, New Men illuminates America's rise to cultural and scientific prominence - and transforms our understanding of America's role in world history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-506) and index.
Maps on endpapers.
Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1986.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Prologue; title: Book one : The book of the continent.; title: The cosmic voyagers; title: The North American adventure; title: A continental consciousness; title: The fur trader as explorer; title: Humboldt's children; title: Portfolio 1 : New lands; title: Book two : The book of the oceans.; title: The whole world is an America, a new world; title: Exploration and empires for science; title: Two roads to discovery : an intellectual drama; title: From Manifest Destiny to survival of the fittest; title: Book three : The book of time.; title: Portfolio 2 : New men; title: Time and the heroic age of geological exploration; title: On, beyond Greenland's icy mountains