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Sydney.
Hordern.
2004.
704 pages, 732 articles in about 700,000 words. Indexes of ships and persons, bibliographies. Bound in Saifu cloth with a colour dustjacket. Quarto. The second volume of this excellent reference covers the period 1800 -1850. A vital reference, a who's who of exploration and travel. Truly an essential work for any one interested in exploration and travel and mandatory for the shelves of any library worth its salt! "The Encyclopedia of Exploration is destined to become the standard work of reference for the history of world exploration, travel and colonization. The vast scope of the Encyclopedia of Exploration makes it a work unlike any other in its combination of historical, biographical and bibliographical data. . . . Fifteen years in the making, the Encyclopedia of Exploration will certainly be the first port-of-call for researchers, students, historians, collectors, librarians - all those who need to know about the subject. It has been a massive undertaking resulting in a work that extends to almost 2 million words in 1888 pages. More than 3000 major articles have generated index entries totalling more than 10,000 names of persons or ships mentioned in the text. Within the text itself there are about 6500 cross-references between articles. Altogether nearly 30,000 bibliographical citations accompany the articles. Ray Howgego's name is familiar to researchers in the field of exploration and discovery, and a number of his earlier articles have appeared on the Internet. The project for a major reference work first started as a catalogue of expeditions, voyages and travels, but its scope was soon extended to include biographical information on the travellers themselves, and often their historical background. At the same time a record of bibliographical references, both major and minor, was undertaken. A considerable quantity of information in this book is presented here for the first time in English". Publisher's description. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 77693)
ISBN: 9781875567393
Related Subject Areas:
Asia
East Asia
Exploration
Pacific
South Asia
Southeast Asia
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