Treaty to Treaty : a history of early New Zealand from the Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 to the Treaty of Waitangi 1840 volume 2 1494-1799 _ Western powers reach out to the East and Pacific Ocean
Author(s): R S Bennett
Volume 2, of 358 A-4 pages published in 2011, covers in chronological form the entry of European powers from prior to 1500 into the Americas, eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean, which culminated in the British colonization of Australia and New Zealand. Australia has a greater coverage than New Zealand. The author breaks new ground in explaining the highly probable arrival in New Zealand of the Dutch ship Hendrick Frederick in 1600/1601. A new explanation is given for the sixteenth century ‘Dieppe maps’ showing a southern continent below Indonesia. New Caledonia is revealed in a French map of circa 1540, which leads to a discussion on sixteenth century French trade routes to Canton in southern China via Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, along with clues indicating French contact with Australia.
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‘A very useful chronicle of events that are little understood in Australia’ - Associate Professor Tony Taylor, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
‘Your achievement earns our respect’─Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegan, Netherlands
‘… a credible calendar of voyages and events which influenced the European exploration of New Zealand and the wider southern Pacific region’─Journal of the Polynesian Society, December 2012
v. 2. 1494-1799, Western powers reach out to the Eastern and Pacific Ocean
General Fields
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- : RSB Publications
- : RSB Publications
- : 01 January 2011
- : 297x210mm
- : New Zealand
- : 01 January 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : R S Bennett
- : Paperback
- : 993.01
- : very good
- : 301
