Exploring the explorers
Subtitle: Spaniards in Oceania, 1519-1794
By: Mercedes Maroto Camino
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780719077791
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Navigation and the Pacific : Magellan and Spanish voyages prior to 1567; title: Spanish voyages to the Pacific 1567-1606. Mendaña and the Solomons (1567-68) ; Mendaña and the Santa Cruz (1595) ; Quirós and Vanuatu (1606); title: Voyaging and the Pacific 1606-1770s; title: Spanish voyages to the Pacific 1770-94. González and Easter Island (1770) ; Boenechea and Tahiti (1772) ; Máximo and the padres in Tahiti (1774-75) ; Mourelle and Vava'u (1781) ; Malaspina and Vava'u (1793); title: Viewing the Pacific.