Title: Bright and distant shores
Description: Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, historical, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Pacific area, fiction, South Pacific Ocean Fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Chicago (Ill.), South Pacific Ocean, Oceania