| 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 |
| V Navigation and Astronomy in the Voyages |
| VI The Sailor's Perspective: British Naval Topographic Artists |
 | Notes |
| • | 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 |
| • | V Navigation and Astronomy in the Voyages |
| • | VI The Sailor's Perspective: British Naval Topographic Artists |
| Index |