Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands (Historical Dictionaries of Discovery and Exploration). Max Quanchi

Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands (Historical Dictionaries of Discovery and Exploration)



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Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Language: English
Page: 385
ISBN: 0810853957, 9780810853959

Review

This is the second book in the series Historical Dictionaries of Discovery and Exploration, and measures up to the high standard of the first volume...This is a valuable, extremely interesting work of scholarship. (Arba )

...a truly serviceable reference guide to the most essential components of the formidable legacy of Pacific 'discoverers' and explorers. Essential for all academic libraries and their students and for readers with a taste for tales of unknown regions. (Reference Reviews, Vol. 20 No. 4, 2006 )

...a detailed and complex compendium of information....a valuable addition to the library of anyone working on the Pacific and its varied problems. (Journal Of Pacific History, Vol. 42 No. 1, June 2007 )

Quanchi (Pacific history, Queensland U. of Technology, Australia) and Robson (map librarian, U. of Waikato, New Zealand) offer a dictionary of people, places, periods, and subjects relating to the Pacific Islands, as well as contemporary topics such as El Niño and marine archaeology. Descriptions of exploration, activities, advances, events, and inventions include James Cook, the Seven Years War, mythology and indigenous exploration, ships, and mapping. Maps, chronologies, and a list of Pacific Islands and their initial European visitors are incorporated. One third of the book is taken over by an extensive bibliography by topic. (Reference and Research Book News )

About the Author

Max Quanchi teaches Pacific History at Queensland University of Technology and has written extensively on the history of the Pacific Islands.

John Robson is the Map Librarian at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, president of the New Zealand Map Society, and New Zealand representative for the Hakluyt Society.



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