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Title European voyaging towards Australia / edited by John Hardy and Alan Frost with the assistance of Isabel Moutinho
Published Canberra : Highland Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, [1990]
©1990

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Description xiv, 171 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Series Occasional paper (Australian Academy of the Humanities)
Contents Alfred W. Crosby Europe discovers the world-ocean -- Antonio Estacio dos Reis Navigational instruments and methods used by the Portuguese in the age of discovery -- Max Guedes The Carreira da India -- Lourdes Diaz-Trechuelo The voyage of the Manila Galleon -- Jorge Berguni The south and mid-pacific voyages -- Tom Vermeulen The Dutch entry into the East Indies -- James Watt The health of sailors -- Etienne Taillmite Shipboard life -- John Dunmore Problems arising from social and political change in France 1780-1810 -- Thierry Guicheteau and Jean-Pierre Kerneis Medical aspects of the voyages of exploration, with particular reference to Baudin's expedition 1800-1804 -- Barry M. Gough William Bolts and the Austrian attempt to establish an eastern empire -- Catherine Gaziello French interests and ambitions: Laperouse's voyage -- Alan Frost The colonisation of New South Wales -- Helene Richard D'Entrecasteaux's expedition -- David Mackay In the shadow of Cook: the ambition of Matthew Flinders -- Carlos Martinez Shaw Spanish attitudes to the indigenous people of the Pacific Ocean -- Lous H. de Vries-Zuiderbaan Dutch attitudes to indigenous people -- Glyndwr Williams English attitudes to the indigenous peoples of the Pacific -- Christian Couturaud French attitudes to indigenous peoples -- Claude de Laguerenne and Jean-Pierrs Kerneis French interest in the Australian aborigines in the nineteenth century -- Rudiger Joppien Cook's third voyage - some comments from the artist's point of view -- Jacqueline Bopnnemains The Leseuer collection, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre -- R.J.B. Knight Displaying records and artefacts: the problem of the First Fleet
Analysis Australia Discovery and exploration
Voyages and travels
Notes "The papers in this volume were first presented at an international colloquium held at the Château d'Entrecasteaux, 8-11 September, 1987, on the theme Voyaging towards Australai" -- foreword
"This volume is a companion to Studies From Terra Australia to Australia (Canberra, 1989)"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
In Occasional paper (Australian Academy of the Humanities) no:9
Subject Discoveries in geography.
Explorers.
Voyages and travels.
SUBJECT Australia -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308
Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
Author Frost, Alan, 1943-
Hardy, John.
Moutinho, Isabel.
Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Château d'Entrecasteaux
LC no. 91052900
ISBN 0909897190
OTHER TI Studies from Terra Australis to Australia
Other Titles Studies from Terra Australis to Australia