Background To Discovery
  Preface
  Contributors

 expand sectionI  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
 collapse sectionIV  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
 expand sectionV  Navigation and Astronomy in the Voyages
  VI  The Sailor's Perspective: British Naval Topographic Artists

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionIndex
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