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pp.xii 334.b/w photographs.”This book has the following essays by world renown historians.Glyndwr williams- to make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown the Admiralty and Pacific exploration in the 18th century.Alan Frost – the Spanish Yoke British Schemes to revolutionise Spanish America.Andrew Cook – Alexander Dalrymple and the Hydrographic Office.jane Samson – An empire of Science the Voyage of HMS Herald 1845-1851.R J B Knight – John Lort Stokes and the New Zealand Survey.William Barr – Warrant Officer in the Arctic The Journal of George Ford.Greg Dening – the hegemony of laughter Purea’s theatre .Robin Fisher – Vancouver’s Vision Of Native Peoples The Northwest Coast and Hawai’i.Christon I Archer – Whose Scrouge? Smallpox Epidemics on the Northwest Coast.Andrew Porter – The Career of William Ellis British Missions,the Pacific and the american Connection.Sylvia Van Kirk – Colonised Lives the NAtive wives and daughters of Five Foundling Families.Peter J Marshall – The Great Map Mankind The British Encounter with India.David Mackay – Exploring the Pacific,exploring James Cook.” paperback edition