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Juvenile non fiction..,
By Judy Smith "judylynnsbooks" (jamestown, ky United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Explorers of the Pacific,
European kings in the 16th century dreamed of finding spices and gold in a mythical land mass in the Southern Hemisphere called Terra Australia. Incognita, or Unknown South Land. The search for it was only part of the great exploration by white men of the vast 10,000 mile watery expanse that Magellan so incorrectly named Pacific. Primitive canoe wanderers had already found homes in Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia, but now came Portuguese explorers seeking the Indies, Spaniards in great galleons that were floating treasure houses of plunder, British privateers, and seamen from all over Europe.
Mendano, who found the Solomons; bold Francis Drake; the Dutch Tasman, who blazed a sea trail to Australia; Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe; Captain Bligh of Bounty Fame; and Captain Cook, perhaps the greatest of them all...these are just a few of the names emblazoned across the canvas of this thrilling saga. Here are the shipwrecks and castaways, the cannibals, the coral reefs and lush islands of breadfruit and coconut, the mutineers and Yankee whalers, in an all-inclusive adventure story of epic proportions. 180 pages with index. |
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Explorers of the Pacific, by A. Grove Day (Unknown Binding - 1967)
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