| Description |
xii, 375 pages, 21 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, charts, facsimiles, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contents : 1. Tasman's maritime background. -- 2. The European exploration of the South Pacific and Australia up to 1642. -- 3. The inception of Tasman's main voyages. -- 4. The Haalbos-Montanus account of the voyage of 1642-1643. -- 5. Tasman's journal of the voyage of 1642-1643. -- 6. The sailor's journal of the voyage of 1642-1643. -- 7. Tasman's voyage of 1644 to New Guinea and Australia. -- 8. Tasman's later life. -- 9. The discoverer discovered |
| Summary |
In this book outlines of Tasman's early life and voyages and of the European exploration of the South Pacific and Australia up to 1642 are followed by detailed studies of Tasman's main voyages of 1642-3 and 1644, during which he made outstanding contributions to European discovery in South Pacific and on the coasts of Australia. The final chapters cover his later life and the main publications whereby in the three following centuries his achievement became known and acclaimed. Novelties in the book are the gathering in one volume of translations of the Haalbos-Montanus account, Tasman's journal and the 'sailor's' journal of the voyage of 1642-3, some gleanings fom Nicholas Witsen concerning the signficance and relationships of various charts deriving from those voyages -- Inside jacket |
| Notes |
Bibliographical footnotes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical footnotes and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?-1659.
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Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?-1659 -- Travel.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Explorers -- Netherlands -- Biography.
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Voyages and travels.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 -- Dutch
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Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308
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Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002239
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?-1659.
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| LC no. |
68134448 |
| ISBN |
0198215363 |
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