An important new

Pacific reference

by Thomas Suarez

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224 pages with 223 illustrations

sample pages below
 
Introduction
1. The Pacific Islands and Their People
2. Mariners, Mapmakers, and the Great Ocean
3. The Pacific Evolves after Magellan
4. In the Wake of the Solomon Islands
5. Earliest Mapping of Australia and New Zealand
6. The Age of Enlightenment
7. The Three Voyages of James Cook
8. The Discovery of Tahiti and Hawaii
9. The Eighteenth Century after Cook
10. Micronesia, the Elusive Isles
11. Surveyors, Whalers, and Missionaries
Bibliography
Index

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Copyright © 2004 Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd
Text © 2004 Thomas Suárez
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ISBN 0 7946 0092 1
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