Clark Library Professorship, UCLA: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook [Idioma Inglés]: 11 - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0520062086 ISBN 13: 9780520062085

Verlag: University of California Press, 1990

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Reseña del editor

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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Biografía del autor

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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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0520062086
• ISBN 13: 9780520062085
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
• Herausgeber: Howse Derek