Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
by WITHEY, Lynne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0091736021
- ISBN 13
- 9780091736026
- Seller
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Rippleside, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hawthorn, VIC: Hutchinson, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Near fine - a very neat, bright copy. First Australian edition. Octavo in original dark olive boards with gilt title and credits to spine, map endpapers. 512 pages including black & white illustrations, references, index. Very slight creasing to dustjacket top edge. Withey makes use of recent scholarship in a range of disciplines to place Cook's achievements in the broader context of Pacific exploration from both European and Pacific people's perspective.
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- Bookseller
- Sad Paradise Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1709035
- Title
- Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
- Author
- WITHEY, Lynne
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0091736021
- ISBN 13
- 9780091736026
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- Hawthorn, VIC
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- COOK, JAMES, 1728-1779 VOYAGES AND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia Pacific;
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- Gilt
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