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Charles Lee Lewis
Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338060495
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Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, U. S. Navy (Retired)
Who has written the Foreword of this biography
FOREWORD
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I believe that the most instructive form of reading is biography. In the story of a man’s life one can see in quick review the struggle that man went through to attain or to fail to attain his heart’s desire.
For the professional man, life stories of his colleagues and predecessors focus down to the particular problems of the profession. This is essentially the case with the story of a man like Maury. As a naval officer, Maury’s work will always remain outstanding. He was one of our pioneer investigators of the geography of the sea and the physics of the air. And at the same time he never lost sight of the intrinsic needs of his Service.