From the author of The First Scientific American comes a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.
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Try free nowFrom the author of The First Scientific American comes a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.
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Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of History at Harvard University. She is the author of four previous books of nonfiction, including The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Science and Technology Category), and winner of the Annibel Jenkins Prize of American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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