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a young man's daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the world's oceans
xx, 340 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Setting sail -- First sight -- The origins of the sextant -- Blight's boat journey -- Anson's ordeals -- The marine chronometer -- Celestial timekeeping -- Captain Cook charts the Pacific -- Bougainville in the South Seas -- La Pérouse vanishes -- The travails of George Vancouver -- Flinders - coasting Australia -- Flinders - shipwreck and captivity -- Voyages of the Beagle -- Slocum circles the world -- Endurance -- "These are man" -- The landfalls -- Epilogue.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.