The great South Sea: English voyages and encounters, 1570-1750 / Glyndwr Williams
1997, 1st Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #346968
ISBN: 0300072449
Physical description: xv, 300 pages: illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Contents: El Mar del Sur: the Spanish lake -- "The world encompassed": Drake and his successors -- Geographical enigmas and literary utopias -- "They were not come out to go upon discovery": buccaneers and interlopers in the South Sea -- "I speak as to the compass of my own knowledge": Dampier's explorations and writings -- The "cruising voyages" of Dampier and Rogers -- "A gross, palpable illusion" : the founding of the South Sea Company -- The age of the bubble (1): castaways and projectors -- The age of the bubble (2): voyages real and fictitious -- "Our second Drake": Anson's circumnavigation -- Widening horizons. Subjects: Explorers Pacific Coast (South America) History. Explorers England History. Explorers Great Britain History. Discoveries in geography British. Oceania Discovery and exploration British.
Price: €14.95