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The Course of Empire
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The Course of Empire Paperback - 1998

by Devoto, Bernard

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Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto’s monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.

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  • Title The Course of Empire
  • Author Devoto, Bernard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition New
  • Pages 688
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-09-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0395924987
  • ISBN 9780395924983 / 0395924987
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 1.56 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 3.96 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.) - History, United States - Territorial expansion
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.1

Summary

Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto’s monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.

First line

EARLY IN the eighth century a mixed people whom history was to call the Moors crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from Africa.