Foreword by Basil Greenhill. 28 PP, plus 1 map on double page at centerfold. Pictorial soft cover. Note to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) at top of front cover, o/wise near fine. 29.5 x 20.8. 3 papers read at a symposium held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich on 7th November 1970: Charles de Brosses, the man behind Cook - Getting to know the beau sauvage - The penetration of the Pacific by American whalemen in the 19th century.

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Title: THE OPENING OF THE PACIFIC, Image and Reality - Maritime Monographs and Reports No 2
Publisher: National Maritime Museum. London. .
Publication Date: 1971
Binding: Soft cover

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