Edward Heawood

A History of Geographical Discovery

In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1912 volume calls for a revision of the view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had relatively few 'Great Geographic Discoveries'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781107600492
• ISBN-10: 1107600499
• Artikelnr.: 34959582

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Arctic regions, 1550-1625
2. The East Indies, 1600-25
2. The East Indies, 1600-1700
3. Australia and the Pacific, 1605-42
4. North America, 1600-1700
5. Northern and Central Asia, 1600-1750
6. Africa, 1600-1700
8. The South Seas, 1650-1750
9. The Pacific Ocean, 1764-80
10. Russian discoveries in the North-East, 1700-1800
11. The Northern Pacific, 1780-1800
12. The Southern Pacific, 1786-1800
13. The French and British in North America, 1700-1800
14. Spanish and Portuguese America, 1700-1800
Conclusion
Supplementary notes
Index.