"Cover design by Jean Charlot."--Title page.

"Printed by Honolulu Star-Bulletin."--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ferdinand Magellan -- Loyasa and Saavedra -- Villalobos and Gaetano -- Legaspi and Urdaneta -- Alvaro de Mendana -- Sir Francis Drake -- Thomas Cavendish and others -- Mendana and Quiros -- Pedro Fernandez de Quiros -- Early Dutch voyages (Olivier van Noort ; the Dutch East India Company ; Joris Spilbergen ; Le Maire and Schouten ; The Nassau Fleet ; Terra Australia Incognita ; Abel Tasman) -- Buccaneers and privateers -- Jacob Roggeveen -- British explorers, 1740 to 1780 (George Anson ; John Byron ; Wallis and Carteret ; James Cook's first voyage ; Cook's second voyage ; Cook's third voyage) -- British navigators, 1780 to 1800 (Portlock and Dixon ; John Watts ; William Bligh ; John Meares ; George Mortimer ; Edward Edwards ; George Vancouver ; William Robert Broughton ; James Wilson) -- French explorers of the eighteenth century (Louis de Bougainville ; De Surville ; Marion de Fresne and Crozet ; La Pérouse ; Etienne Marchand ; Bruni d'Entrecasteaux) -- Spanish voyages of the eighteenth century (Felipe Gonzalez ; Domingo Boenechea ; Boenechea and Gayanos ; Cayetano de Langara ; Francisco Antonio Maurelle ; Summary) -- American voyages of the eighteenth century (Joseph Ingraham ; Josiah Roberts ; Edmund Fanning ; Summary) -- Russian voyages (Russian voyagers, 1803 to 1826 ; Von Krusenstern ; Urey Lisiansky ; Hagenmeister ; Mikhail Laarev ; Otto von Kotzebue's second voyage ; Vassili Golovnin ; Thaddeus Bellingshausen ; Von Kotzebue's second voyage ; Summary) -- French voyages of the nineteenth century (Camille de Roquefeuil ; Louis de Freycinet ; Louis Duperrey ; Dumont d'Urville's first voyage ; Duhaut-Cilly ; J.A. Moerenhout ; Abel du Petit-Thouars ; Dumont d'Urville's second voyage ; Summary) -- British voyages, 1800 to 1850 (John Turnbull ; Peter Corney ; George Anson Byron ; Frederick W. Beechey ; Peter Dillon ; Frederick Debell Bennett ; Robert Fitz-Roy ; Edward Belcher ; Lord Edward Russell ; John Erskine ; Summary) -- American voyages, 1800 to 1842 (David Porter ; Charles S. Stewart ; John Downes ; Charles Wilkes ; Summary) -- Literature cited -- Index.

Bagnall, B1641

"Explorers of the Pacific by the late Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa) is a posthumous contribution that meets fully the exacting standards set in his previous writings by this distinguished student of Polynesia. The book is a byproduct of an earlier monograph, "An introduction to Polynesian anthropology." It was Dr. Buck's original intention to write a section on the European explorers of the Pacific for his annual report as director of the Bishop Museum, but he became so interested in the early voyagers and their reports on the people of the islands that he produced a book instead"--Foreword / Alexander Spoehr, page volume.