Defining the Pacific: Opportunities and Constraints (Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900)

by Fred Spier (Editor), PaulW.Blank (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $128.09

  The articles collected in this volume cover the Pacific in its entirety. They aim to define the Pacific and its concerns; the geology and geophysics of the Pacific basin; oceanology, climatology and biogeography; and human settlement, diffusion, and early trans-Pacific contacts.