Part 1 Editor's Foreword Part 2 Preface Part 3 List of Maps Part 4 Pacific Islands and Their First European Visitors Part 5 Chronologies Part 6 Maps Part 7 Introduction Part 8 THE DICTIONARY Part 9 Bibliography Part 10 Appendix: Associations, Libraries, and Societies Part 11 About the Authors
Max Quanchi teaches Pacific History at Queensland University of Technology and has written extensively on the history of the Pacific Islands. John Robson is the Map Librarian at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, president of the New Zealand Map Society, and New Zealand representative for the Hakluyt Society.
This is the second book in the series Historical Dictionaries of
Discovery and Exploration, and measures up to the high standard of
the first volume...This is a valuable, extremely interesting work
of scholarship.
*American Reference Books Annual*
...a truly serviceable reference guide to the most essential
components of the formidable legacy of Pacific 'discoverers' and
explorers. Essential for all academic libraries and their students
and for readers with a taste for tales of unknown regions.
*s, Vol. 20 No. 4, 2006*
...a detailed and complex compendium of information....a valuable
addition to the library of anyone working on the Pacific and its
varied problems.
*Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 42 No. 1, June 2007*
Quanchi (Pacific history, Queensland U. of Technology, Australia)
and Robson (map librarian, U. of Waikato, New Zealand) offer a
dictionary of people, places, periods, and subjects relating to the
Pacific Islands, as well as contemporary topics such as El Niño and
marine archaeology. Descriptions of exploration, activities,
advances, events, and inventions include James Cook, the Seven
Years War, mythology and indigenous exploration, ships, and
mapping. Maps, chronologies, and a list of Pacific Islands and
their initial European visitors are incorporated. One third of the
book is taken over by an extensive bibliography by topic.
*Reference and Research Book News*
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