Exploring the explorers:Spaniards in Oceania, 1519-1794
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Manchester University Press Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
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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. |