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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-12-22 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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While French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly may not have become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829, his trip has enriched histori
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While French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly may not have become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829, his trip has enriched histori
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands
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The Great Ocean
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The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and see