Voyages of great pioneers
By: edited by Vincent T. Harlow.
Publisher: Oxford university press, H. Milford
Published: 1929
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Voyages and travels.
Notes: "Books for further reading": p. [viii]
Table of contents: title: The journey of Friar William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world.; title: The travels of Marco Polo the Venetian.; title: Journal of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus.; title: The first voyage of Vasco Da Gama to India.; title: The search for the North-west passage: 1. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Discourse to prove a passage by the North West to Cataya. 2. The second voyage of Sir Martin Frobisher.; title: The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake.; title: Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of the large, rich, and bewtiful empyre of Guiana.; title: Dutch and English in the East Indies: 1. The first voyage of Sir James Lancaster to the East Indies. 1601. 2. An account of the massacre at Amboyna.; title: The discovery of Australasia: 1. Tasman's Journal of a voyage made from the town of Batavia in East India for the discovery of the unknown South-land (1642) 2. Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world.