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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495960003321

Titolo

Background to discovery : Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook / / edited by Derek Howse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1990]

ISBN

0-585-07886-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 210 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; ; 11

Disciplina

910/.941

Soggetti

Discoveries in geography

Geography

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Geography-General

Pacific Area Discovery and exploration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.