Exploring the explorers:Spaniards in Oceania, 1519-1794

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Camino Mercedes Maroto
Published: Manchester University Press Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Manchester, UK New York New York
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xi, 243 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780719077791 (hbk.)
0719077796 (hbk.)
Index Number: K604
CLC: K604
Call Number: K604/C183
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-238) and index.
Navigation and the Pacific : Magellan and Spanish voyages prior to 1567 -- Spanish voyages to the Pacific 1567-1606. Mendaña and the Solomons (1567-68) ; Mendaña and the Santa Cruz (1595) ; Quirós and Vanuatu (1606) -- Voyaging and the Pacific 1606-1770s -- Spanish voyages to the Pacific 1770-94. González and Easter Island (1770) ; Boenechea and Tahiti (1772) ; Máximo and the padres in Tahiti (1774-75) ; Mourelle and Vava'u (1781) ; Malaspina and Vava'u (1793) -- Viewing the Pacific.