Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit with author Joyce Chaplin For almost five hundred years, people have been finding ways to circle the Earth-by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation,

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The U.S. Navy's campaign against the Barbary pirates is one of the greatest sea stories in naval history. This book tells the story of Commodore Edward Preble and the legendary efforts of "Preble's Boys" to subdue the pirate leader of Tripoli, who declared war on the United States in 1801. Chipp Reid uses the words

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