Background to discovery : Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook / / edited by Derek Howse
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Background to discovery : Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook / / edited by Derek Howse
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1990] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 210 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 910/.941 |
| Soggetto topico: | Discoveries in geography |
| Geography | |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | |
| Geography-General | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Pacific Area Discovery and exploration |
| Persona (resp. second.): | HowseDerek |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Background to discovery |
| ISBN: | 0-585-07886-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910495960003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; ; 11.