The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606

Volumes I-II

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376 Seiten

2010
Ashgate Publishing Limited
9781409424741 (ISBN)

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Three narratives of voyages to the Pacific, translated and edited. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 15) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1904. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the three maps original included in a pocket at the back of the first edition of the work.

Sir Clements Markham

Contents: Volume I: Dedication; Introduction; Note on the cartography of the Southern Continent, by B.H. Soulsby; Narrative of the second voyage of the Adelantado Alvaro de Mendana, by the chief pilot Pedro Fernandez de Quiros; Narrative of the voyage of the Adelantado Alvarez de Mendana de Niera for the discovery of the Islands of Solomon, written by the chief pilot, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros for Don Antonio de Morga, Lieutenat-General of the Philippines; Narrative of the voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros in 1606, for the discovery of the Austral regions, Index. Volume II: True account of the events of the voyage that Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros made to the unknown Southern lands by Gaspar de Leza, chief pilot of the said fleet; Torquemada's account of the voyage of Quiros; Letter from Luis Vaez de Torres to the King of Spain; Legends on the 4 maps signed by Diego de Prado y Tobar; Appendix; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.10.2010
Reihe/Serie	Hakluyt Society, Second Series
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
ISBN-13	9781409424741 / 9781409424741
Zustand	Neuware