Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my supervisor, William H. Goetzmann, for his extensive comments, helpful suggestions, and infectious excitement about the romance of exploration and adventure. I would also like to thank my second reader, Howard Miller, for his careful edits and moral support.

Finally, I thank my wife, Erika Metzler Sawin, for her proof-reading, support, and love-not necessarily in that order.

July, 1997

Your heritage is in a goodly land. Its fields are wide; its skies are bright; and its people free. Choose you out its men of mark-the great and good-as patterns for yourselves. Ask of their experience, if in its silent teachings you may not find reason-nay more-encouragement, to hope for a good name too-a place among them.

- Matthew Fontaine Maury  from an address delivered before the University of Virginia, June 28, 1855.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

- Matthew 23: 27-28

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