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HENDERSON, G[EORGE] C[OCKBURN] The discoverers of the Fiji Islands, Tasman, Cook, Bligh, Wilson, Bellinghausen.
London John Murray, 1933 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good
Xviii,324, [2 advertising] pages, 48 plates and maps (3 folding), 1 large folding map in rear pocket, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. 1st edition. Abel Janszoon Tasman, James Cook, William Bligh, James Wilson, and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. From the preface: Since the beginning of the year 1927 I have paid four visits to Fiji, and on each occasion have followed in the tracks of one or more of the discoverers, checking and testing the evidence supplied in their journals, log-books, and charts, and devoting special attention to any place or area concerning which my preliminary studies had left me in a state of uncertainty or perplexity. This has been the most profitable as well as the most exacting part of the research on which I have been engaged for the last seven years. In all these voyages I have had the assistance of commanders and navigators of British and Colonial ships who, with their special training and up-to-date instruments, were able to take observations, and supply me with information whereby the accuracy or otherwise of statements in the log-books and charts of the old navigators could be tested. I am hopeful that, as a result of these advantages in addition to my academic researches, it will be found that the information given in this book is reliable; and also that my wholehearted appreciation of the character and work of every one of the discoverers, founded as it is upon vital knowledge of the difficulties and dangers which they encountered, is just.
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100.00 USD
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