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Let the sea make a noise-- : a history of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur
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- Creator
- Walter A. McDougall
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Perennial edition
- New York : Perennial, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 793 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0060578203, 9780060578206
- OCLC
- ocm54022594
- Originally published: New York : Basic Books, c1993.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [723]-773) and index.
- I: Of sail and muscle -- 32 ĚŠnorth latitude, 159 ĚŠeast longitude, 1565 -- Nagasaki 1638 -- Peking 1644 -- Nerchinsk 1689 -- Petropavlovsk 1741 -- Alta California 1769 -- The second 'aha iki -- Kealakekua Bay 1779 -- Nootka Sound 1790 -- Hokkaido 1792 -- Kealakekua Bay 1794 -- Sitka 1799 -- Paris 1803 -- Sakhalin Island 1806 -- The third 'aha iki -- Astoria 1811 -- California and Kauai 1815 -- Washington City 1819 -- St. Petersburg 1821 -- Honolulu 1825 -- The fourth 'aha iki -- Washington-on-the-Brazos 1836 -- Canton 1839 -- Honolulu 1843 -- Oregon 1844 -- Sonoma 1846 -- Panama and Cape Horn 1849 -- The fifth 'aha iki -- II: Of stream and rails -- The sixth 'aha iki -- Edo 1853 -- Aikun-on-the-Amur 1858 -- San Francisco 1860 -- Washington City and Sitka 1867 -- Tokyo 1868 -- Utah and British Columbia 1869 -- The seventh 'aha iki -- Honolulu 1875 -- Sacramento and Washington 1882 -- Tokyo 1889 -- Vladivostok and Otsu 1891 -- Honolulu 1893 -- Korea 1895 -- Manila and Honolulu 1898 -- The eighth 'aha iki -- North, to Alaska 1899 -- Peking 1900 -- Panama City 1903 -- Port Arthur 1904 -- Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1905 -- The ninth 'aha iki -- III: Internal combustion -- The tenth 'aha iki -- San Francisco 1906 -- Korea 1910 -- Peking 1912 -- Panama and Kiao-chow 1914 -- Vladivostok and Paris 1919 -- Washington, D.C. 1921 -- Tokyo 1923 -- The eleventh 'aha iki -- Seattle to Seattle 1924 -- Shanghai 1927 -- Mukden 1931 -- Nanking 1937 -- Nomonhan 1939 -- Pearl Harbor 1941 -- The twelfth 'aha iki -- Tule Lake and Midway Island 1942 -- Attu and Teheran 1943 -- Saipan 1944 -- Nagasaki 1945 -- Tokyo 1948 -- Korea 1950 -- The thirteenth 'aha iki -- Americans burden -- The dismissal