Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook

Edited by Derek Howse; Contributing authors: Charles Batten, Daniel Baugh, Seymour Chapin, Derek Howse, John Sands, and Glyndwr Williams.

ISBN 10: 0520062086 ISBN 13: 9780520062085

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, California / London, England, 1990

Language: English

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xvi, 201 pp. Publications from the Clark Library Professorship, UCLA. Volume 11. Dustjacket. LCC: 894828.

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Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook

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University of California Press, Berkeley, California / London, England

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1990

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English

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0520062086

ISBN 13

9780520062085

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Hardcover

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Very good condition.

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Background to Discovery recounts the great voyages of discovery, from Dampier to Cook, that excited such fervent political and popular interest in eighteenth-century Europe. Perhaps this book's greatest strength lies in its remarkable synthesis of both the achievements of European maritime exploration and the political, economic, and scientific motives behind it. Writing essays on the literary and artistic response to the voyages as well, the contributors collectively provide a rich source for historians, geographers, and anyone interested in the history of voyage and travel.

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Derek Howse is former Head of Navigation and Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, and coeditor of A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (California, 1989). In 1983-84 he served as Clark Library Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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