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Author Williams, Glyndwr.

Title The great South Sea : English voyages and encounters, 1570-1750 / Glyndwr Williams.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
©1997

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  995 WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
Description xv, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents El Mar del Sur : the Spanish lake -- "The world encompassed" : Drake and his successors -- Geographical enigmas and literary utopias -- "They were not come out to go upon discovery" : buccaneers and interlopers in the South Sea -- "I speak as to the compass of my own knowledge" : Dampier's explorations and writings -- The "cruising voyages" of Dampier and Rogers -- "A gross, palpable illusion" : the founding of the South Sea Company -- The age of the bubble (1) : castaways and projectors -- The age of the bubble (2) : voyages real and fictitious -- "Our second Drake" : Anson's circumnavigation -- Widening horizons.
Subject Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- British.
Pacific Coast (South America) -- Discovery and exploration -- British.
ISBN 0300072449
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