The author has made an intensive study of the early literature of the Pacific. In this book his purpose is to establish the true title to the discovery of the various islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia by abstracting from the original records the relevant topographical, nautical, and other clues and comparing them with the modern data.
- ISBN10 0198215193
- ISBN13 9780198215196
- Publish Date December 1960
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 July 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 276
- Language English