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...SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON...
...Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, a World War II admiral and a private yachtsman, Champlain would be a hero for the last two qualities alone. Like Francis Parkman, who tried to traverse all the lands and waters he wrote histories about, Morison has retraced Champlain's paths, starting as a young man in 1906 when he sailed along the French explorer's routes off Nova Scotia and down the New England coast, growing more and more admiring as he remarked how accurate Champlain's soundings and descriptions of such harbors as Plymouth and Gloucester still were after...
...EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: THE NORTHERN VOYAGES, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The 1,000-year saga of those ancient mariners who did not fall off the edge of the world...
...shoot on location at Bear Island in the Arctic Circle. Unlike, say, Ian Fleming, who was content with swift caricatures or comic-book effects, MacLean casts a few interesting human characters. There is old Captain Imrie, for example, who drinks like John Barrymore and thinks like Samuel Eliot Morison; and there is a rummy but Jesuitical mate named Stokes, who can remember the specific weather on an afternoon a generation...
...European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, Morison...