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Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2001. 1st edition. soft cover. VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers./No Jacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white. 30 cm.
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Merchant of the Zeehaen: Isaac Gilsemans and the Voyages of Abel Tasman Hardcover - 2001
by Grahame Anderson
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- Title Merchant of the Zeehaen: Isaac Gilsemans and the Voyages of Abel Tasman
- Author Grahame Anderson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 162
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Te Papa Press, Wellington, NZ
- Date 2001
- ISBN 9780909010751 / 0909010757
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001369462
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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The Merchant of the Zeehaen : Isaac Gilsemans and the Voyages of Abel Tasman.
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The Merchant of the Zeehaen;: Isaac Gilsemans and the Voyages of Abel Tasman
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From the back cover: "In this ground-breaking book, based on new research, Grahame Anderson tells the story of Tasman's voyages of exploration, and explains the pivotal role of Isaac Gilsemans, the "Merchant of the Zeehaen", who sailed with him in 1642-3. Cartographer, illustrator, editor, and explorer, it was Gilsemans who drew the coastal profiles of lands visited during the voyages.But it wasn't until he did some on-the-water research in 1985, sailing in search of Tasman's anchorage near D'Urville Island, that Anderson discovered something that no one else had realised for more than 340 years. The illustrations that formed part of the official record of the voyages were precise cartographic documents, not vague sketches of unidentifiable coastline, as had previously been thought. The fifteen years of research that followed his discovery bring the name of Isaac Gilsemans into the forefront of the history of seventeenth century oceanic exploration, and shed new light on Tasman's voyages around the… Read More
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