xii, 334 p., [12] p. of plates : ports., maps ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Area
Northwest Coast of North America
Date:
1999
18th century
19th century
Contents:
'To make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown' : the Admiralty and Pacific exploration in the eighteenth century / Glyndwr Williams -- The Spanish yoke : British schemes to revolutionise Spanish America, 1739-1807 / Alan Frost -- Alexander Dalrymple and the Hydrographic Office / Andrew Cook -- An empire of science : the voyage of HMS Herald, 1845-1851 / Jane Samson -- John Lort Stokes and the New Zealand survey, 1848-1851 / R.J.B. Knight -- A warrant officer in the arctic : the journal of George Ford, 1850-1854 / William Barr -- The hegemony of laughter : Purea's theatre / Greg Dening -- Vancouver's vision of native peoples : the northwest coast and Hawai'i / Robin Fisher -- Whose scourge? : smallpox epidemics on the northwest coast / Christon I. Archer -- The career of William Ellis : British missions, the Pacific, and the American connection / Andrew Porter -- Colonised lives : the native wives and daughters of five founding families of Victoria / Sylvia Van Kirk -- The great map of mankind : the British encounter with India / P.J. Marshall -- Exploring the Pacific, exploring James Cook / David Mackay
