Title The secret discovery of Australia : Portuguese ventures 200 years before Captain Cook / Kenneth Gordon McIntyre

Published Medindie, S. Aus. ; London : Souvenir Press, 1977

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Description xxi, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm regular print Series Susan Crooke Memorial Collection Susan Crooke Memorial Collection Contents The question -- Part One. What knew the Portuguese of this great country? -- 1. Prince Henry the Navigator -- 2. The Portolans -- 3. The Treaty of Tordesillas -- 4. The Line of Demarcation -- 5. Timor -- 6. India Meridional -- 7. The cartographical spies -- Part Two. Old-time charts bespeak some knowledge -- 8. The Dauphin Map -- 9. Java -- 10. The Antarctic extension -- 11. The Lisbon mapmakers -- 12. Loxodromes and erration -- 13. Magnetic south -- 14. The Rio Grande -- 15. From Rotz to Desliens -- 16. Mercator and de Jode -- Part Three. In their rivalry with Spain they kept a secret Analysis Australia Discovery and exploration Portuguese Explorers, Portuguese Australia - Discovery and exploration - Portuguese Portugal - History - Period of discoveries, 1385-1580 Notes Includes index Map on lining papers Bibliography Bibliography: pages 403-413 Event [1977] Subject Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese. Explorers -- Portugal. Explorers, Portuguese SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Discoveries (in geography) Australia -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 -- Portuguese Australia -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 Portugal -- History -- Period of discoveries, 1385-1580. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105259 LC no. 78307309 ISBN 0285623036

Other Titles Secret discovery of Australia : Portugese ventures 250 years before Captain Cook

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