The Exploration Of The Pacific
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few oceans have captured the imagination of the world quite like the Pacific — vast, mysterious, and fiercely unforgiving to those who dared chart its waters. The Exploration of the Pacific by J. C. Beaglehole presents a sweeping and authoritative chronicle of European maritime discovery across the world's greatest ocean, from the earliest Spanish and Portuguese voyages of the sixteenth century through to the legendary expeditions of Cook, Bougainville, and their contemporaries. With the precision of a scholar and the narrative flair of a born storyteller, Beaglehole details the ambitions, rivalries, and extraordinary feats of seamanship that gradually transformed an unknown expanse into a mapped and contested arena of empire. Beaglehole — widely regarded as the preeminent authority on Pacific exploration — writes with a rare combination of meticulous historical rigour and elegant prose, situating each voyage within its broader political, scientific, and cultural context. The work stands as a landmark contribution to the historiography of exploration, illuminating not only the mechanics of navigation but the human drama that drove men to sail beyond the edges of the known world. First published in 1934 as part of the distinguished Pioneer Histories series, it remains essential reading for anyone drawn to the romance and reality of the age of discovery — and raises the irresistible question of what truly compelled these mariners to keep sailing into the unknown.
Author: J. C. Beaglehole
Format: Hardback
Published: 1934, A. & C. Black Ltd
Genre: Travel & exploration
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few oceans have captured the imagination of the world quite like the Pacific — vast, mysterious, and fiercely unforgiving to those who dared chart its waters. The Exploration of the Pacific by J. C. Beaglehole presents a sweeping and authoritative chronicle of European maritime discovery across the world's greatest ocean, from the earliest Spanish and Portuguese voyages of the sixteenth century through to the legendary expeditions of Cook, Bougainville, and their contemporaries. With the precision of a scholar and the narrative flair of a born storyteller, Beaglehole details the ambitions, rivalries, and extraordinary feats of seamanship that gradually transformed an unknown expanse into a mapped and contested arena of empire. Beaglehole — widely regarded as the preeminent authority on Pacific exploration — writes with a rare combination of meticulous historical rigour and elegant prose, situating each voyage within its broader political, scientific, and cultural context. The work stands as a landmark contribution to the historiography of exploration, illuminating not only the mechanics of navigation but the human drama that drove men to sail beyond the edges of the known world. First published in 1934 as part of the distinguished Pioneer Histories series, it remains essential reading for anyone drawn to the romance and reality of the age of discovery — and raises the irresistible question of what truly compelled these mariners to keep sailing into the unknown.