Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook (Clark Library Professorship, UCLA)

Howse, Derek [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0520062086 / ISBN 13: 9780520062085

Published by University of California Press, 1990

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Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook (Clark Library Professorship, UCLA)
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520062086
• ISBN 13: 9780520062085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Weight: 18 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Exploration, Mountaineering and Nature

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.