Exploring the Pacific

ISBN-13: 9781604131970 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009

General Editors John S Bowman and Maurice Isserman

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Explains how explores of the Pacific region expanded geographical knowledge and contributed to human understanding by generating maps, charts, paintings, and reports. This book covers such explorers as Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, Alvaro de Mendana, and James Cook.