Abel Janszoon Tasman: His Life and Voyages, and The Discovery of Van Diemen's Land in 1642 (Dodo Press) - Brossura

Walker, James Backhouse

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9781406577396: Abel Janszoon Tasman: His Life and Voyages, and The Discovery of Van Diemen's Land in 1642 (Dodo Press)

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ISBN 10: 1406577391 ISBN 13: 9781406577396

Casa editrice: Dodo Press, 2008

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"No life of the first circumnavigator of Australia has hitherto appeared in English. Nothing has been accessible to the English reader but an abstract of one voyage and a few lines in biographical dictionaries. This is scarcely surprising, when we consider how careless Tasman's own countrymen have been of his fame. Fifty years ago all that had been printed in his own country consisted of short abstracts of a few voyages, and these were hidden away in bulky collections. Even the date and place of his birth were matter for conjecture. and dispute. Things are somewhat better now. Thirty-five years ago the complete journal of his famous voyage of 1642 was published in Holland, and we are now promised a sumptuous fac simile edition of the original manuscript, with notes by two eminent scholars, and with an English translation. "

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