Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush

by David Igler

Book Overview

The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and European and American dreams of scientific exploration, trade, and empire grew dramatically. By the time of the California gold rush, the Pacific's many shores were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190498757
• ISBN13: 9780190498757
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"