An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean

Accounts of voyages by Iberian and Dutch explorers in the southern hemisphere, published 1770–1 and reissued here in one volume.

Alexander Dalrymple (Author)

9781108069472, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 July 2015

530 pages, 11 b/w illus. 5 maps
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.6 cm, 0.95 kg

This important collection, published in two volumes in 1770–1 and reissued here in one, contains accounts of notable Iberian and Dutch voyages in the southern hemisphere, translated and edited by Alexander Dalrymple (1737–1808). Hydrographer to the Admiralty from 1795, Dalrymple produced this work as part of his research into the belief at the time that there existed an undiscovered continent in the South Pacific. These volumes were intended to demonstrate the knowledge of the region to date. The first volume covers sixteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese voyages, beginning with Ferdinand Magellan and including those of Juan Fernández, Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira and Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. The second volume contains the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch voyages of Jacob Le Mair and Willem Schouten, Abel Tasman and Jacob Roggeveen. This volume also contains a chronological table of discoveries in the southern hemisphere since 1501.

Preface
Introduction
Monthly review for May, 1769
Data on which the chart of the South Seas was formed
Of the Salomon Islands
Account of some natural curiosities at Sooloo
An enquiry into the formation of islands
An historical collection of the several voyages in the south Pacific Ocean, Spanish
An historical collection of the several voyages in the south Pacific Ocean, Dutch
Omissions
Conduct of the discoverers
What may be further expected in the south sea
Vocabulary
A chronological table of discoveries
Index.

Subject Areas: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]