| An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean Contributor(s): Dalrymple, Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108069479 ISBN-13: 9781108069472 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) - History | Australia & New Zealand - General |
| Dewey: 919.6 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 7" W x 10" (2.00 lbs) 530 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This important collection, published in two volumes in 1770-1 and reissued here in one, contains accounts of notable Iberian and Dutch voyages in the southern hemisphere, translated and edited by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808). Hydrographer to the Admiralty from 1795, Dalrymple produced this work as part of his research into the belief at the time that there existed an undiscovered continent in the South Pacific. These volumes were intended to demonstrate the knowledge of the region to date. The first volume covers sixteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese voyages, beginning with Ferdinand Magellan and including those of Juan Fern ndez, lvaro de Menda a y Neira and Pedro Fernandes de Queir s. The second volume contains the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch voyages of Jacob Le Mair and Willem Schouten, Abel Tasman and Jacob Roggeveen. This volume also contains a chronological table of discoveries in the southern hemisphere since 1501. |