Lost Paradise. The Exploration of the Pacific.
London. Century Hutchinson. 1987. Stock ID #2708 Describes the physical creation of the Pacific, and suggests how the ocean's multitude of islands may have been first populated by those true discoverers of the ocean, the Polynesians. It brings vividly to life the epic voyages of the Spanish, Dutch, British, French, Russian and American explorers as they battled against the vast distances of the Pacific and the appalling weather conditions of the ocean's polar approaches. It recounts the excesses of the exploiters - the freebooters, sealers, whalers, missionaries and traders - who followed in the explorers' wake. When referring to this item please quote stockid 2708.
Maps, colour & black and white photographic illustrations, 248pp, appendices, bibliography, index, a good copy in little worn dustjacket with small closed tear upper cover, quarto.
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