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Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography - A Biography, 1806-1873 (Paperback)
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Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography - A Biography, 1806-1873 (Paperback)
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In becoming "a useful man" on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontained
Maury focused light on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted
sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the
fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind the
Old and New worlds with the laying of the transatlantic cable,
forcefully advocated Southern rights in a troubled union, and
preached Manifest Destiny from the Arctic to Cape Horn. Late in
life, he revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically
detonated mines. Maury's eagerness to go to the public in person
and in print on the questions of the day riled powerful men in
business and politics, and the United States, Confederate and Royal
navies. They dismissed him as the "Man on the Hill". Over his
career, Maury more than once ran afoul of Jefferson Davis, and
Stephen R. Mallory, chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee
and later secretary of the Confederate States Navy. Through the
political, social and scientific struggles of his time, however,
Maury had his share of powerful allies, like President John Tyler;
but by the early 1870s they too were in eclipse or in the grave.
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