The Pacific Ocean / by Felix Riesenberg; illustrated by Stephen J. Voorhies.
Material type:
TextSeries: Oceans of the worldPublisher: New York : London, Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, [1940]Copyright date: copyright 1940Description: 6 preliminary leaves, [3]-322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0836921259
- 9780836921250
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TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection | PAC 919 RIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | FEAH25072416 |
Map on lining-papers; illustration on t.p.
The unknown ocean -- Balboa discovers the Pacific -- Magellan: the great navigator -- Guam and the Isles of Spice -- The Spanish Ocean -- The Manila Galleons -- Drake enters the Pacific -- The taking of the Santa Anna -- The struggle for the Pacific -- Heroic Anson -- Tahiti -- Captain James Cook: explorer extraordinary -- Sealers and whalers -- Wilkes: America's Captain Cook -- The opening of the Japanese door -- The last Pacific frontier.