Title:
Early mapping of the Pacific : the epic story of seafarers, adventurers, and cartographers who mapped the Earth's greatest ocean / Thomas Suárez.
Author:
Suárez, Thomas.
Publication Information:
Singapore : Periplus, ©2004.
Call Number:
GA383 .S83 2004
Abstract:
With dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of the Pacific follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in the Pacific Ocean. It covers the history of ocean exploration from 16th century Portuguese mariners to 20th century explorers and includes a cornucopia of rare and beautiful maps of the Pacific Ocean, in particular, of Hawaii, Tahiti, Australia and New Zealand, among other Pacific Islands and territories. Early Mapping of the Pacific traces the exploration and charting of the great ocean through cartography, following the story from classical times through the turn of the twentieth century, telling the tales of seafarers who ventured eastward from Asia and were the Pacific's greatest explorers.
Contains primary source material.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1012/2004351712-t.htmlContributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2004351712-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1107/2004351712-d.html
ISBN:
9780794600921
9780794608040
Physical Description:
224 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Contents:
The Pacific Islands and their people -- Mariners, mapmakers, and the Great Ocean -- The Pacific evolves after Magellan -- In the wake of the Solomon Islands -- Earliest mapping of Australia and New Zealand -- The Age of Enlightenment -- The three voyages of James Cook -- The Discovery of Tahiti and Hawaii -- The eighteenth century after Cook -- Micronesia, the elusive isles -- Surveyors, whalers, and missionaries.
The Pacific Islands and Their People -- Human Settlers -- The European Record -- Pacific Settlement: Deliberate or Accidental? -- Cosmology -- Indigenous Maps -- Pacific Regions -- Mariners, Mapmakers, and the Great Ocean -- Early Cartographic Traces -- The Discovery of America Defines the Pacific -- Two Patterns of Early Pacific Mapping -- On the Eve of Magellan -- The Pacific's East-West Breadth -- The Pacific's North-South Limits -- Terra Australis and Other Enticements -- The Pacific Evolves after Magellan -- Medieval Lore Mixes with New Discoveries -- In the Wake of the Solomon Islands -- The Solomons on Printed Maps -- Francis Drake's Circumnavigation -- The Marquesas: Mendana's Second Expedition -- Quiros and Torres -- Earliest Mapping of Australia and New Zealand -- Mapping the Dutch Discovery of Australia -- The "Pacific" Land of Beach -- Jacob Le Maire -- Abel Tasman -- The Age of Enlightenment -- The English Map Trade -- Scientists and Buccaneers -- Literary Pacific Landscapes -- Further Searches for Terra Australis -- The European Discovery of Easter Island and Samoa -- A Renaissance of English Voyages -- Bougainville Follows the English Lead -- Thomas Forrest in the Western Pacific -- The Three Voyages of James Cook -- The Discovery of Tahiti and Hawaii -- Tahiti and the Mapping of the Cosmos -- The Tahitian Navigator, Tupaia -- Later Explorers and Missionaries Map Tahiti -- The European Discovery of Tahiti -- Do Maps Record Hawaii before Cook? -- Missionaries and the Mapping of Hawaii.
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