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1) Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the course of American empire

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Chaffin, Tom

Pub. Date

2002.

Language

English

2) Revolutionary brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendship that helped forge two nations

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Chaffin, Tom

Pub. Date

2019.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.

3) Odyssey: young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the voyage that changed the world

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Chaffin, Tom

Pub. Date

2022.

Edition

First Pegasus Books club edition.

Language

English

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"Charles Darwin--alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein--ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking, and travels aboard HMS Beagle would shape his later theories and served as the foundation of his scientific breakthroughs. Though storied, the Beagle's...

4) The H.L. Hunley: the secret hope of the Confederacy

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Chaffin, Tom

Pub. Date

2008.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. Not until World War I-half a century later, would a submarine again accomplish such a feat. But also, perishing that moonlit night, vanishing beneath the cold Atlantic waters off Charleston, South Carolina, was the Hunley and her entire crew of eight. For generations, searchers prowled Charleston's...

5) Sea of gray: the around-the-world odyssey of the Confederate raider Shenandoah

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Chaffin, Tom

Pub. Date

2006.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story...