Author: PHILBRICK, NATHANIEL.
Title: Sea of Glory. The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-42.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xxvii, 452; 24 pages of b/w. photographic plates, 8 maps, notes, selected bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. London; Flamingo; 2004. For four years, the six sailing ships and 346 men of the expedition, including scientists and artists, covered the pacific from top to bottom. They surveyed 280 islands, encountering murder and cannibalism in Fiji, and brought back more specimens and artifacts than all three of James Cook's voyages combined. These became the foundation of the scientific collections of the future Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords: discovery exploration pacific antarctic maritime cartography maps
Title: Sea of Glory. The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-42.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xxvii, 452; 24 pages of b/w. photographic plates, 8 maps, notes, selected bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. London; Flamingo; 2004. For four years, the six sailing ships and 346 men of the expedition, including scientists and artists, covered the pacific from top to bottom. They surveyed 280 islands, encountering murder and cannibalism in Fiji, and brought back more specimens and artifacts than all three of James Cook's voyages combined. These became the foundation of the scientific collections of the future Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords: discovery exploration pacific antarctic maritime cartography maps
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- Book number: 113899
- Book number: 113899