Description |
xiv, 171 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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Occasional paper (Australian Academy of the Humanities)
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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 |
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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 |
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"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.
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Explorers.
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Voyages and travels.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308
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Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
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Author |
Frost, Alan, 1943-
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Hardy, John.
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Moutinho, Isabel.
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Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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Château d'Entrecasteaux
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LC no. |
91052900 |
ISBN |
0909897190 |
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