Author: RIGBY, NIGEL; Van der MERWE, PIETER; and WILLIAMS, GLYN. Title: Pioneers of the Pacific. Voyages of Exploration.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 144; illustrated with numerous coloured and b/w. plates, maps, timeline, sources, index, original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Crawley; University of Western Australia Press; 2005. Introducing six of Cook's immediate successors in the Great South Sea, Arthur Phillip, Laperouse, Bligh, Alejandro Malaspina, George Vancouver, and Matthew Flinders, the book draws together accounts of their voyages with illustrations from a wide range of international sources.
Keywords: martime history Australia
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 105870