Pacific Voyages
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Pacific Voyages
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Pacific Voyages written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Pioneers Of The Pacific
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Author : Nigel Rigby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Pioneers Of The Pacific written by Nigel Rigby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The voyages of Captain Cook marked the end of early European voyages in the Pacific and launched a new era of scientific exploration and commercial and colonial exploitation. Introducing six of Cook's immediate successors in the 'Great South Sea', this book draws together accounts of their voyages with illustrations from a wide range of international sources."--BOOK JACKET.
Science And Exploration In The Pacific
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Author : Margarette Lincoln
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1998
Science And Exploration In The Pacific written by Margarette Lincoln and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This volume contains studies of scientific and cultural discoveries made on Cook's 1768-7 voyage to the South Sea in Endeavour, and issues emerging from this and successive Pacific voyages.
Pioneers Of The Pacific
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Author : Nigel Rigby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Pioneers Of The Pacific written by Nigel Rigby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Islands of the Pacific categories.
Pacific Voyages
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Author : Maggs Bros
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Pacific Voyages written by Maggs Bros and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Islands of the Pacific categories.
Voyages To The South Seas Indian And Pacific Oceans China Sea North West Coast Feejee Islands South Shetlands C
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Author : Edmund Fanning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
Voyages To The South Seas Indian And Pacific Oceans China Sea North West Coast Feejee Islands South Shetlands C written by Edmund Fanning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with Voyages and travels categories.
The Hill Collection Of Pacific Voyages
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Author : University of California, San Diego. University Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Hill Collection Of Pacific Voyages written by University of California, San Diego. University Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with California categories.
Pacific Voyages
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Author : Peter Harrington (Firm)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Pacific Voyages written by Peter Harrington (Firm) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Booksellers' catalogs categories.
Pacific Exploration
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Author : Nigel Rigby
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-09-06
Pacific Exploration written by Nigel Rigby and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with History categories.
Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands – and tested all Cook's skills as a navigator, seaman and leader. His voyages were among the first to take civilian scientists, notably Sir Joseph Banks, and they revealed to European eyes the mysterious and exotic lands, peoples, flora and fauna of the Pacific, never before seen. But while Cook understandably dominates the story of 18th-century Pacific exploration, the achievements of those who followed him on many voyages of science and exploration into the Pacific have been neglected and deprived of the greater attention they deserve. Correcting this imbalance, Pacific Exploration explores the European voyages that continued Cook's work not only of charting but also starting to exploit and control the Pacific. These voyages, by William Bligh, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders, Malaspina, Lapérouse and Arthur Phillip, span a period that saw Britain becoming the world's leading maritime power, a situation well in place by the time that Charles Darwin's voyage in Fitzroy's Beagle laid the basis of even greater understanding of the development of life on earth. Recounting and illustrating these achievements and legacies using fascinating text and beautiful illustrations and artworks from the period, this book explores topics of scientific discovery, engagement with indigenous peoples, the use of shipboard artists and scientists, the growing professionalism of the hydrographic service, the vessels used and the colonial, commercial and imperial contexts of the voyages.
Pacific Voyages
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Author : Gordon Miller
language : en
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Release Date : 2023-06-24
Pacific Voyages written by Gordon Miller and has been published by Douglas & McIntyre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-24 with Art categories.
"Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller's] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms and in cities are luminous."--Pacific Yachting In Western myths and imagination, the Pacific is the home of soft, warm, gentle trade winds, idyllic island lagoons and waving palms--the exotic earthly paradise of escapists, adventurers and romantics. Until James Cook showed otherwise, eighteenth-century Europeans also believed this ocean to contain a great southern continent of untold riches and beauty. The islands of the South Pacific can indeed be enchanting, their charm often exceeding expectations, but as European mariners realized when they first arrived here in the sixteenth century, the Pacific Ocean is also a region of ferocious tropical cyclones, treacherous, reef-littered atolls, wearying doldrums and mind-numbing distances. This book is maritime artist and historian Gordon Miller's tribute to the humble little ships that first ventured across the great Pacific, and the brave sailors that manned them. It is a brief, selective and condensed story of the charting, exploitation and occupation of the Pacific Ocean, mostly in small, wooden ships, with only wind and human muscle for power. These maritime pioneers united North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, the entire Pacific Ocean, all the coasts that surround it, and all the islands within. Even confined to the last four centuries of oceangoing sail, this is a large and complex story--a story brought to life by Miller's carefully researched text and masterfully rendered maritime paintings.