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The Admiral and the Ambassador: One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body of John Paul Jones Hardcover - 2014
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- Title The Admiral and the Ambassador: One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body of John Paul Jones
- Author Scott Martelle
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1St Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Chicago Review Press
- Date 2014-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781613747308 / 1613747306
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.39 x 1 in (23.42 x 16.23 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects Porter, Horace, Jones, John Paul - Death and burial
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014002307
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2014, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 03/03/2014, Page 0
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Chicago Review Press, 2014. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2014 Chicago Review Press hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. As the French Revolution gathered steam, the exact location of Jones's grave--and, in fact, the exact location of St. Louis cemetery in Paris, where he was buried in 1792--was forgotten: information on his death and burial were destroyed in the Paris Commune and the few who had attended his burial had passed away. His body had, though, been preserved in a lead-lined coffin filled with alcohol; theoretically, if the coffin could be located, Jones could be returned to the United States for proper burial. The Admiral and the Ambassador details Porter's long, unrelenting search for that coffin, first through scraps of archive material and written recollections of funeral attendees, and then beneath the rickety buildings that had been…
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