Background to discovery : Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook / / edited by Derek Howse |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1990] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 210 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 910/.941 |
Collana | Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA |
Soggetto topico |
Discoveries in geography
Geography Earth & Environmental Sciences Geography-General |
ISBN | 0-585-07886-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495960003321 |
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1990] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A buccaneer's atlas : Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner : a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682 / / edited by Derek Howse and Norman J.W. Thrower ; with special contributions by Tony A. Cimolina ; foreword by David B. Quinn [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Ringrose Basil -1686 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 314 p. ) : ill. |
Disciplina | 912/.162389291643 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HowseDerek
ThrowerNorman Joseph William CimolinoTony A (Tony Alexander) QuinnDavid B |
Soggetto topico |
Nautical charts - Pacific Coast (North America) - To 1800
Nautical charts - Pacific Coast (South America) - To 1800 Pilot guides - Pacific Coast (North America) - To 1800 Pilot guides - Pacific Coast (South America) - To 1800 Nautical charts - Early works to 1800 - Facsimiles Geography Earth & Environmental Sciences Atlases & Maps |
ISBN | 0-585-21316-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495969503321 |
Ringrose Basil -1686 | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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