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The Pacific Ocean

Title
The Pacific Ocean / by Felix Riesenberg; illustrated by Stephen J. Voorhies.
Author
Riesenberg, Felix, 1879-1939.
Publication
New York, London, Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. [©1940]

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Additional Authors
Voorhies, Stephen J.
Description
6 preliminary leaves, [3]-322 pages illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Oceans of the world
Uniform Title
Oceans of the world.
Subject
  • Explorers > Pacific Area
  • Discoveries in geography
  • Explorers
  • Pacific Ocean > Discovery and exploration
  • Pacific Area
  • Pacific Ocean
Note
  • Map on lining-papers; illustration on t.p.
Contents
The unknown ocean -- Balboa discovers the Pacific -- Magellan: the great navigator -- Guam and the Isles of Spice -- The Spanish Ocean -- The Manila Galleons -- Drake enters the Pacific -- The taking of the Santa Anna -- The struggle for the Pacific -- Heroic Anson -- Tahiti -- Captain James Cook: explorer extraordinary -- Sealers and whalers -- Wilkes: America's Captain Cook -- The opening of the Japanese door -- The last Pacific frontier.
ISBN
  • 0836921259
  • 9780836921250
LCCN
40027616
OCLC
  • ocm00889396
  • 889396
  • SCSB-291285
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library