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The explorers of the Pacific / Geoffrey Badger.
- Title
- The explorers of the Pacific / Geoffrey Badger.
- Author
- Badger, G. M. (Geoffrey Malcolm)
- Publication
- Kenthurst [Australia?] : Kangaroo Press, 1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | G200 .B32 1988 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 248 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Background to adventure -- Polynesian voyaging -- The problems of the navigators -- Arrival of the Europeans -- The new era begins -- The first French expedition -- The transit of Venus -- Southward bound again -- Cook's second voyage -- A happy return -- The discovery of Hawaii -- Death of a navigator -- The French return -- The breadfruit voyages -- Vancouver and New Albion -- the search for La Pérouse -- The French try again -- The Flinders circumnavigation -- The Dumont d'Urville voyages -- Aftermath -- Hazards and achievements -- Dead reckoning -- Latitude by observation -- The transit of Venus -- The names of the French explorers -- Ship time -- The Flinders contributions to navigation -- The Polynesian languages -- Equivalents.
- ISBN
- 0864172117
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library