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

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

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Description xvi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; 11 Publications from the Clark Library professorship, UCLA ; 11 Contents 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 Analysis Europe Oceans Exploration Europe Oceans Exploration Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program English Subject Discoveries in geography -- English. Discoveries in geography. SUBJECT Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Discovery and exploration -- English. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002239 Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238 Author Howse, Derek. LC no. 89004828 ISBN 0520062086 (alk. paper)

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