Polynesian Navigation & the Discovery of New Zealand, Jeff Evans

Автор: Evans Jeff
Название: Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand
ISBN: 1877514152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781877514159
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Автор: Druett Joan
Название: Tupaia: Captain Cook`s Polynesian Navigator
ISBN: 0995130906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995130906
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Tupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship's translator. Lauded by Europeans as an "extraordinary genius," Tupaia was a star navigator, a brilliant orator, and a most devious politician. Being highly skilled in astronomy, navigation and meteorology, and an expert in the geography of the Pacific, he was able to name directional stars and predict landfalls and weather throughout the voyage from Tahiti to Java.

Though, like all Polynesians, he had no previous knowledge of writing or map-making, Tupaia drew a chart of the Pacific that encompassed every major group in Polynesia and extended more than 2500 miles from the Marquesas to Rotuma and Fiji.

Tupaia also became one of the ship's most important artists, drawing lively pictures to illustrate what he described, and he could justly be called the Pacific's first anthropologist. Despite all these amazing accomplishments, however, Tupaia has never been part of the popular Captain Cook legend. In Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator, Joan Druett restores this extraordinary genius to his rightful place in history.

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Автор: Gary L. Pinkerton
Название: Trammel`s Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North
ISBN: 1623497906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623497903
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: "A self-proclaimed 'rut nut' prone to ground-truth his research, Gary L. Pinkerton brings considerable historical and geoarchaeological skills to bear in his in-depth analysis of an often-overlooked early route to Texas. This is, at one level, a detailed biography of a road, but in focusing on a line through the Texas prairies and woodlands that predated formal Anglo-American colonization of the area, the author also makes significant, defining connections that give the reader much more to consider."--Southwestern Historical Quarterly

"Pinkerton's passion is contagious, and his enthusiasm will strike a chord with lay readers as well as scholars of early Texas history."--Central Texas Studies

Автор: Howitt
Название: The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand
ISBN: 1108029507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108029506
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: In 1865, following a two-year visit to Australia, the prolific English writer William Howitt published this two-volume account of the European exploration of Australia and New Zealand. Volume 2 covers expeditions in Australia from the mid-1840s, including the disappearance of Burke and Wills, and the discovery and settlement of New Zealand.

Автор: Howitt
Название: The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand
ISBN: 1108029493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108029490
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: In 1865, following a two-year visit to Australia, the prolific English writer William Howitt published this two-volume account of the European exploration of Australia and New Zealand. Volume 1 includes the voyages of Abel Tasman and Captain Cook, and other explorers up to the 1840s including Fitzroy and Darwin.