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" Exploring the Pacific / "
Martha Vail.
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BL
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1008087
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b762457
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Vail, Martha.
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Exploring the Pacific /\ Martha Vail.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Facts On File,, ©2005.
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Discovery & exploration
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xiii, 162 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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0816052581
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: 9780816052585
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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"Tide beating heart of the earth" -- Map 1: Abraham Ortelius "Typus orbus terrarum," 1570 -- First Pacific explorers -- Early pacific navigation -- Art of the Pacific peoples -- Map 2: Discovery and settlement of the south pacific, 40,000 bc-500 A.D. -- Map 3: Voyages of Cheng Ho, 1431-1433 -- Europeans encounter the Pacific, from East to West -- Spice trade -- Map 4: Spice trade route, 100-1500 A.D. -- Map 5: Dias finds the cape of good hope, 1488 -- Vasco da Gama reaches India, 1497-1499 -- Map 6: Journey of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, 1511-1513 -- Magellan's circumnavigation, 1519-1522 -- Mutiny -- Circumnavigation and privateers -- Map 7: Magellan finds the strait, 1520 -- Map 8: Magellan's expedition circumnavigates the earth, 1519-1521 -- Conquista Espiritual: the Spanish in the Pacific -- Women, slaves, and colonists -- Sixteenth-century navigation and ships -- Map 9: Mendaña explores the Solomon Islands, 1567-1569 -- Map 10: Mendaña establishes a colony, 1595 -- Map 11: Quirós and Torres in Espíritu Santo, 1605-1606 -- Exploration in the service of commerce -- Cartography -- Painted prince: Pacific travelers in Europe -- Map 12: Willem Janz explores New Guinea, 1606 -- Map 13: le Maire and Schouten venture in to the South Pacific, 1615-1616 -- Map 14: Abel Tasman sails to Tasmania, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, 1642-1644 -- Map 15: Roggeveen lands at Easter Island, 1721 -- 7. Exploration in the service of empire -- Real Robinson Crusoe -- South Sea bubble -- Map 16: Dampier reaches Australia and New Guinea, 1699-1700 -- Map 17: Byron, Wallis, and Carteret in the Pacific, 1764-1767 -- James Cook and the Endeavour -- Artists aboard -- Scurvy -- Map 18: the voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771 -- Map 19: Cook in New Zealand, 1768-1771 -- Cook's Pacific -- Northwest Passage -- Mark Twain on the death of Cook -- Map 20: First voyage of the resolution, 1772-1775 -- Map 21: Second voyage of the Resolution, 1776-1780 -- Science and empire -- Whaling -- Gaugin and Robert Louis Stevenson in paradise -- Map 22: Darwin and the beagle, 1831-1836 -- Map 23: Wilkes expedition, 1838-1842 -- Map 24: European colonial possessions, 1898 -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Index.
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"Tide beating heart of the Earth"--The first Pacific explorers--Europeans encounter the Pacific, from East and West--Magellan's circumnavigation, 1519-1522-Conquista Espiritual: The Spanish in the Pacific--Exploration in the Service of Commerce--Exploration in the Service of Empire--James Cook and the Endeavour--Cook's Pacific--Science and empire.
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Explorers-- Pacific Area, Juvenile literature.
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Explorers-- Pacific Area.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Explorers.
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Erforschung.
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Pacific Ocean, Discovery and exploration, Juvenile literature.
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Pacific Ocean, Discovery and exploration.
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Pacific Area.
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Pacific Ocean.
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Pazifischer Ozean.
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| Dewey Classification
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919.04
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DU19.V25 2005
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NQ 9350rvk
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