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Voyages of great pioneers / edited by Vincent T. Harlow.
LIBRA 910.8 H227
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harlow, Vincent T. (Vincent Todd), 1898-1961, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 380 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including facsimiles) plates, portrait, maps. ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1929.
- Contents:
- The journey of Friar William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world.
- The travels of Marco Polo the Venetian.
- Journal of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus.
- The first voyage of Vasco Da Gama to India.
- The search for the North-west passage: 1. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Discourse to prove a passage by the North West to Cataya. 2. The second voyage of Sir Martin Frobisher.
- The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake.
- Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of the large, rich, and bewtiful empyre of Guiana.
- Dutch and English in the East Indies: 1. The first voyage of Sir James Lancaster to the East Indies. 1601. 2. An account of the massacre at Amboyna.
- The discovery of Australasia: 1. Tasman's Journal of a voyage made from the town of Batavia in East India for the discovery of the unknown South-land (1642) 2. Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world.
- Notes:
- "Books for further reading": page [viii]
- OCLC:
- 3603352
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