| Background To Discovery |
| Preface |
| Contributors |
| I Seapower and Science: The Motives for Pacific Exploration |
| II The Achievement of the English Voyages, 1650-1800 |
| III The Men from Across La Manche: French Voyages, 1660-1790 |
| IV Literary Responses to the Eighteenth-Century Voyages |
| • | The Traveler As Hero |
| • | The Traveler As Scientist |
| • | The Scientific Approach to Geology |
| • | The Scientific Approach to Human Nature |
| • | Conclusion |
| V Navigation and Astronomy in the Voyages |
| VI The Sailor's Perspective: British Naval Topographic Artists |
| Notes |
| Index |