An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveri... - 9781108069472
An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific OceanAuthor(s): Alexander Dalrymple\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108069472, 978-1108069472\nSynopsis\nThis important collection, published in two volumes in 17701 and reissued here in one, contains accounts of notable Iberian and Dutch voyages in the southern hemisphere, translated and edited by Alexander Dalrymple [tel]. 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 Fernndez, lvaro de Mendaa y Neira and Pedro Fernandes de Queirs. The second volume conta.
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