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UNINA9910495960003321 |
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Titolo |
Background to discovery : Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook / / edited by Derek Howse |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1990] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 210 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; ; 11 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Discoveries in geography |
Geography |
Earth & Environmental Sciences |
Geography-General |
Pacific Area Discovery and exploration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Seapower and science : the motives for Pacific exploration / Daniel A. Baugh -- The achievement of the English voyages, 1650-1800 / Glyndwr Williams -- The men from across La Manche : French voyages, 1660-1790 / Seymour Chapin -- Literary responses to the eighteenth-century voyages / Charles L. Batten Jr. -- Navigation and astronomy in the voyages / Derek Howse -- The sailor's perspective : British naval topographic artists / John O. Sands. |
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