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Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Cruel Pacific: A Prologue Opening the Great Ocean Captain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard To Glory Arise! 1784-1844 Pacific: Key to New American Wealth? Searching for Something to Sell Science and Shipping Whitening the Seas, 1844-1869 Pushing Out Pacific Frontiers Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle Route Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Expeditions Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Entrepreneurs Russian Connection Girdling the Earth, 1869-1914 Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime Decline Great Transcontinental Pacific Railroads William Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan Railway Steamships on Schedule: Pacific Mail Railroad Titans and the Beringian Route to Asia Grasping the Western Pacific Theodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama Canal Conquering the Skies, 1914-1941 World War I and Pacific Transport Early Air Age Zeppelin: First Over the Pacific Juan Trippe and Pan American to the Orient China Clipper War, the North Pacific, and The New American Frontier, 1941-1945 War Challenges Pacific Transport New Routes and New Frontiers Flying to Russia America, the New Global Hub? Collapse of the American Merchant Marine A New Northwest Passage Jet Revolution and American Leadership Splendid Fantasies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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