The Forgotten True Story of America's Daring First Exploration
of the Pacific
Just four years after the Revolutionary War and more than a
decade before Lewis and Clark's expedition, a remarkable--but now
forgotten--plan was hatched along the docks of Boston Harbor. Two
ships carrying the flag of the newly formed United States would be
dispatched in 1787 on a landmark adventure around South America's
Cape Horn and into the largely uncharted waters of the Pacific
Ocean, far past the western edge of the continent. The man chosen
to lead the expedition was Captain John Kendrick, a master
navigator who had made his name as a charismatic privateer during
the Revolution. On the harrowing seven-year voyage that followed,
Kendrick would establish the first American outpost in the remote
Pacific Northwest, sail into a deadly cauldron of intertribal war
in the Hawaiian Islands, wage a single-ship campaign to hold off
advances of the British and Spanish empires, and narrowly escape
capture by samurai in Japan before meeting his own violent and
tragic end thousands of miles from home. Brilliantly brought to
life by historian Scott Ridley, Morning of Fire is a startling
rediscovery of a thrilling lost chapter of American history.
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