"Exploring the Pacific" by Martha Vail
Discovery & Exploration. General Editors Maurice Isserman, John S. Bowman
Chelsea House, Infobase Publishing | 2010 | ISBN: 1438129483 1604131977 9781604131970 9781438129488 | 121 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Exploring the Pacific, this book Edition explains how explorers of the Pacific region expanded geographical knowledge and contributed to human understanding by generating maps, charts, paintings, and reports. The book covers such explorers as Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, Álvaro de Mendaña, and James Cook.