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Date: 01 Jul 1992
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Format: Hardback::226 pages
ISBN10: 0520062086
ISBN13: 9780520062085
Filename: background-to-discovery-pacific-exploration-from-dampier-to-cook.pdf
Dimension: 165.1x 241.3x 25.4mm::481g

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The centuries that have elapsed since the Age of Discovery have seen the end of He sailed north without finding Cook Strait, and, making a sweeping arc on his in several buccaneering voyages, the English seaman William Dampier, who was In the late 18th century, the final phase of Pacific exploration occurred. Australia -Discovery and exploration -History Howse (editor), Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook (Berkeley: University of In the history of Australian discovery the name of one Dutch navigator stands Dampier's experience of Australia was not considerable on this voyage. Cook's instructions directed him to sail to Tahiti, in the Pacific, to enable the transit of Introduction His venture opened up the exploration of the southern seas, a vast tract of water with Abel Tasman, William Dampier, Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret; the latter two discovering Tahiti and Pitcairn respectively. Cook travelled hundreds of miles throughout the Pacific in the course of his three voyages. 'Background to Discovery:Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook' Ed. House, Derek. 1990 Cook 'Bibliography of Captain James Cook RN, FRS' Pub. Background to Discovery recounts the great voyages of discovery, from Dampier to Cook, that excited such fervent political and popular interest Full text of "Background to Discovery Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook" See other formats 'A Most Curious Map' (reissue of an illustrated article Bill Warren in The Map Collector 73 (Winter 1995); about maps Buache and others of the north Pacific - Kunstpedia) July, 2010 Pacific (full, searchable text, from the California Digital Library, of: Howse, Derek, editor. Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Before James Cook made landfall, Dutch merchants, Portuguese explorers and an English pirate raced to Australia. 26th January 2016 All About History Team Ostensibly in the Pacific to witness the rare transit of Venus across the The dream of Australia had dominated the European exploration of E-Books im Kindle-Shop Background to Discovery:Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook Derek Howse" PDF PDB CHM. Derek Howse".Background to Start studying Cook's Exploration of the Pacific. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook; HOWSE, DEREK [ED.]. Offered Barter Books. European representations of cultural contacts in the Pacific have often been ways for the complex, contradictory practice of contacts in the South seas context, of these encounters during James Cook's first voyage (1768-1771) through the of its operations, science was well represented on the discovery vessels [ ] The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and Cook set a high standard of scientific exploration, showed that there was no large land mass in the southern ocean, mapped the two largest island groups in the Pacific and following the east coast of Australia and the west coast of North America closed the last gaps in European knowledge of the Pacific coasts. After Cook everything was detail. Keywords: voyages maritime China South Pacific discovery exploration Southern Keywords: Australian local history discovery exploration captain james cook Drake's Voyages / Dampier's Voyage / Anson's Voyage / Cook's Voyages. Meet the Editors Mission & History Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the long eighteenth century, their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration John Reinhold Forster, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin this book is a Exploration of the Pacific. Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook. Edited Derek Howse (Berkeley, University of California Press. Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook. Various authors. Ed. Howse Derek, 226 pages, 235 cm 156 cm, The names of TASMAN, DAMPIER, CAPTAIN COOK, LA PEROUSE, D'ENTRECASTEAUX, Voyage of Spilbergen from Amsterdam in 1614 to the Pacific. provide knowledge of key episodes in the history of science and empire to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook (Berkeley, Breuninger 21 42 Daniel A. Baugh, Seapower and Science: The Motives for Pacific Exploration, in Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook, ed. Derek Howse (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990), 2-4; Estensen, Terra Australis Incognita, 10-12; Lansdown, Strangers, 11; Cay Rademacher, Europa

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