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First encounters : the early Pacific and European narratives of Abel Tasman's 1642 voyage
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First encounters : the early Pacific and European narratives of Abel Tasman's 1642 voyage

by Rüdiger Mack

This study examines the 1642–1643 voyage that reached Tasmania, New Zealand, and several Pacific islands. It features the first English translation of Nicolaes Witsen's account and navigator journal excerpts, analysing early indigenous contacts and 17th-century exploration.

Accession 29600 ISBN 9781991097002 Publisher Heritage Press
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In this important book, Mack seeks to rebalance our perspective by focusing upon the expedition led by Abel Tasman, in 1642-1643, which discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, Fiji and New Britain, and visited Tonga, the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. It also includes the first-ever complete English translation of an important resource for the voyage -- from Nicolaes Witsen's 1705 book Noord en Oost Tartarye -- as well as preserves excerpts and illustrations from the journal of Tasman's chief navigator, Francois Jacobsz. -- Trove

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