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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 |
"This extraordinarily handsome volume reproduces a couple of hundred early maps of the greatest ocean in the universe with style and clarity, and Suarez explains the process of mapping an area that is mostly water with a sense of great adventure." (-Honolulu Star Bulletin, June 6, 2004)
"...more than just another book about cartography. It is a romantic excursion into the daring, swashbuckling world of voyagers and explorers plying some of the most remote longitudes on earth, and while cartography remains his main focus, Mr. Suarez has gone out of his way to to recount the particulars of important voyages... ...the book is enhanced by over 200 color and black and white illustrations of maps, charts, manuscripts, title pages, and other illustrations from contemporary sources. The captions are often detailed and offer in themselves salient capsules of the larger survey. The illustrations are lavish and exotic, and the book as a whole is beautifully laid out" (-Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America Newsletter, Spring, 2004)
"...dovetails nicely with his previous publication, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia ...a wide-ranging and very informative iontroduction to a huge topic ...the series of manuscript maps illustrated, from a wide ranging group of libraries and museums, is particularly impressive." (-MapForum, Autumn, 2004)
"Tom
Suarez has a good command of the English
language and a well trained insight into sometimes less than obvious
connections between explorers and map makers. Most of the maps are
presented in color. Fortunately the books size allows most of them to be
examined with the naked eye."
(-The Portolan, Fall, 2004)
"Unlike too many map books
today, this one is printed higher than wide, allowing it to be shelved in
conventional bookcases and held without the pages drooping to the side or
breaking the spine. Many thanks to the author and publisher..."
(-California Map Society, December, 2004)