A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 / Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History / of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and / Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the / Present Time
A systematic compilation of navigational journals and geographical reports documenting voyages of discovery, including detailed accounts of the Sandwich Islands and a northern expedition via Kamtschatka with return by Canton and the Cape of Good Hope. It combines shipboard journals, astronomical observations, chronometer and longitude determinations, charts, and tables of latitude and longitude with practical descriptions of coasts, tides, winds, and volcanic features. Ethnographic sections describe population, social organization, religion, customs, arts, dress, diet, and health, alongside notes on local manufactures, fishing, and warlike instruments. Technical appendices present compass variations and other observational data used to fix positions.
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A systematic compilation of navigational journals and geographical reports documenting voyages of discovery, including detailed accounts of the Sandwich Islands and a northern expedition via Kamtschatka with return by Canton and the Cape of Good Hope. It combines shipboard journals, astronomical observations, chronometer and longitude determinations, charts, and tables of latitude and longitude with practical descriptions of coasts, tides, winds, and volcanic features. Ethnographic sections describe population, social organization, religion, customs, arts, dress, diet, and health, alongside notes on local manufactures, fishing, and warlike instruments. Technical appendices present compass variations and other observational data used to fix positions.
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