Mary Crowl hosted the Really Serious Book Club meeting in July. We reviewed Nathaniel Philbrick’s Sea of Glory about one of the world’s most ambitious voyages of discovery—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842, which set off to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The flora and fauna brought back from the expedition became the material that started The Smithsonian Institution and established the U.S. as a contributor to knowledge of the world. From man-eating natives in Fiji to mountains and ice flows in the Antarctic, this long voyage was monumental.
Our next meeting will be at the home of Norton Schwartz and will discuss 1776 by David McCullough, a book which gives a new view of the terrors and difficulties Washington and the founders endured. If you wish to join
us, email Norton Schwartz at nortlynne@cox.net.
—Norton Schwartz
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