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EARLY VOYAGES TO TERRA AUSTRALIS, NOW CALLED AUSTRALIA
A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS, AND EXTRACTS FROM EARLY MANUSCRIPT MAPS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERY ON THE COASTS OF THAT VAST ISLAND, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY |
| By: |
Richard Henry Major (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0511696760 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780511696763 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 February, 2013 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series |
| Description: |
An 1859 compilation of source material on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European exploration in the Southern Ocean, including Australia. |
| Synopsis: |
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This compilation by R. H. Major of the British Museum (published in 1859) brings together various manuscript and published sources, some of them anonymous, which provide a picture of European exploration in the Southern Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It includes passages from the writings of William Dampier, who not only surveyed part of the coast of Australia ('New Holland'), but also made detailed notes of the fauna and flora he encountered there. |
| Illustrations: |
6 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
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Non-returnable |
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