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  • Spice Islands

    de Ian Burnet ...
    Cloves and nutmeg are indigenous to the Spice Islands of Eastern Indonesia. The book tells of the many uses of these exotic spices and the history of their trade over a period of more than 2000 years. It describes how the Spice trade into Europe came to be dominated by Middle Eastern and Venetian merchants. Backed by the Crowns of Portugal and Spain explorers such as Columbus, Vasco da Gama and ... Leer más

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  • The Tasman Map

    The Biography of a Map

    de Ian Burnet ...
    The Tasman Map delves into the story of the first Dutch voyages to Australia, set against the background of the struggle of the newly formed Dutch Republic to gain its independence from the Kingdom of Spain and the struggle of the Dutch East India Company for trade supremacy in the East Indies against its Portuguese, Spanish and English rivals. Over a period of only forty years from 1606 to 1644 ... Leer más

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  • Dangerous Passage

    A Maritime History of the Torres Strait

    de Ian Burnet ...
    The reef-strewn passage between the Australian mainland and Papua New Guinea remains the most hazardous of all the major Straits in the world. It is 270 kilometres long and only 150 kilometres wide but contains over 274 islands, islets, coral reefs and coral cays and its waters are full of potential hazards separated by narrow and often dangerous channels.The Torres Strait lies at the boundary ... Leer más

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  • East Indies

    de Ian Burnet ...
    Follows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the port cities across the East Indies and the Orient uncovering the high finance, piracy, greed, ambition, double dealing, and exploitation. Driven  by the search for spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains and other oriental goods the Portuguese trading monopoly was challenged by the Dutch East India Company and then the English East India Company, ... Leer más

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  • The Wallace Line

    Where Australia Collides with Asia

    de Ian Burnet ...
    This book follows the epic voyages of natural history of Continent Australia, Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.The voyage of Continent Australia after it breaks away from Antarctica 50 million years ago with its raft of Gondwanaland flora and fauna, and begins its journey north towards the equator.The voyage of Joseph Banks on the Endeavour, who, with Daniel Solander, became ... Leer más

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  • The Tasman Map

    Abel Tasman, the Dutch East India Company and the first Dutch discoveries of Australia

    de Ian Burnet ...
    The Tasman Map is an icon of early Dutch cartography and shows the first European discoveries of Australia. Based on sixteen separate discoveries, the first map of Australia took shape over a period of only forty years, from 1606 to 1644. It shows a recognisable outline of the north, west, and south coasts of Australia that was not to change for another 125 years until the arrival of the British ... Leer más

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  • Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages

    Tales of Singapore and an East Borneo River

    de Ian Burnet ...
    The life of Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea and eventually became a British merchant seaman, working his way up from apprentice to captain on classic three-masted square-rigged barques. He would also become one of the most important novelists in the English language, ... Leer más

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  • Joseph Conrad's EASTERN VOYAGES

    Tales of Singapore and an East Borneo River

    de Ian Burnet ...
    The life of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story that could be written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea, he eventually became a British merchant seaman and he spent fifteen years sailing on the classic three-masted, square-rigged sailing clippers before they were ultimately replaced by steamships. During this ... Leer más

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  • The Reef

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