Pacific Voyages : The Story of Sail in the Great Ocean by Gordon Miller ...

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\u0093Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller\u0092s] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms and in cities are luminous.\u0094\u0097Pacific Yachting\nIn Western myths and imagination, the Pacific is the home of soft, warm, gentle trade winds, idyllic island lagoons and waving palms\u0097the exotic earthly paradise of escapists, adventurers and romantics. Until James Cook showed otherwise, eighteenth-century Europeans also believed this ocean to contain a great southern continent of untold riches and beauty. The islands of the South Pacific can indeed be enchanting, their charm often exceeding expectations, but as European mariners realized when they first arrived here in the sixteenth century, the\n\nPacific Voyages\nThe Story of Sail in the Greatest Ocean\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked;