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An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (Paperback)
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An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
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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 Fernandez, Alvaro de
Mendana y Neira and Pedro Fernandes de Queiros. 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.
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