Book ID: CBB000102013

Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands (2001)

unapi

Clarke, Thurston (Author)


Ballantine Books


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: viii + 342 pp., illus., maps, bibl.
Language: English

Description Describes visits to perhaps 20 islands, scattered around the globe such as Jamaica, Mauritius, Malta, Utila off the coast of Honduras, Banda Neira in the Spice Islands, Niihau, the Hawaiian island, Jura and Eigg off Scotland.


Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000102013/

Similar Citations

Chapter Camino, Mercedes Maroto; (2011)
Ceremonial Encounters: Spanish Perceptions of the South Pacific, 1567--1794 (/isis/citation/CBB001201511/)

Article Skelly, Robert; David, Bruno; Petchey, Fiona; Leavesley, Matthew; (2014)
Tracking Ancient Beach-Lines Inland: 2600-Year-Old Dentate-Stamped Ceramics at Hopo, Vailala River Region, Papua New Guinea (/isis/citation/CBB001422017/)

Chapter Holbrook, Jarita C.; (2012)
Celestial Navigation and Technological Change on Moce Island (/isis/citation/CBB001422694/)

Book Bronwen Douglas; (2014)
Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 (/isis/citation/CBB051358324/)

Book Hunt, Susan; Terry, Martin; Thomas, Nicholas; (2002)
Lure of the Southern Seas: The Voyages of Dumont d'Urville 1826--1840 (/isis/citation/CBB000400052/)

Article Anderson, Warwick; (2012)
Hybridity, Race, and Science: The Voyage of the Zaca, 1934--1935 (/isis/citation/CBB001250834/)

Article Fellers, Gary M.; (2014)
Animal Taxa Named for Rollo H. Beck (/isis/citation/CBB001321126/)

Article Douglas, Bronwen; (2006)
Slippery Word, Ambiguous Praxis: “Race” and Late 18th-Century Voyagers in Oceania (/isis/citation/CBB000660205/)

Book Ballantyne, Tony; (2004)
Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific (/isis/citation/CBB000470096/)

Article Parsons, Christopher M.; Murphy, Kathleen S.; (2012)
Ecosystems under Sail: Specimen Transport in the Eighteenth-Century French and British Atlantics (/isis/citation/CBB001200577/)

Book Paine, Lincoln. P.; (2000)
Ships of Discovery and Exploration (/isis/citation/CBB000102169/)

Authors & Contributors
Douglas, Bronwen
Skelly, Robert
Petchey, Fiona
Leavesley, Matthew
Hellyer, Robert
David, Bruno
Journals
Journal of Historical Geography
Archives of Natural History
Journal of Pacific History
Journal of Global History
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Geographia antiqua
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Hawai'i Press
Houghton Mifflin
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
Ashgate Publishing
Ashgate
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Sea travel
Science and culture
Ships and shipbuilding
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Navigation
People
Shapiro, Harry Lionel
Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de
Fernandes, Pedro, de Queirós
Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sébastien Cézar
Columbus, Christopher
Cabot, John
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Ancient
20th century, early
Places
Islands of the Pacific
France
Australia
Fiji
Pacific Ocean
United States
Institutions
Rohschild Museum (England)
California Academy of Sciences
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (University of California, Berkeley)
Great Britain. Royal Navy
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment