The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750 by Williams, Glyndwr - 1997

New haven, CT and London, UK: Yale University Press, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large Octavo. xvi + 300 pp, list of 42 b&w glossy illustrations & 4 maps, Documents - Abbreviations and Locations, Preface, Introduction El Mar del Sur: The Spanish Lake; Chapter I 'The World Encompassed':Drake and his Successors; Chapter II Geographical Enigmas and Literary Utopias; Chapter III 'They Were Not Come Out to Go upon Discovery': Buccaneers and Interlopers in the South Sea; Chapter IV 'I Speak as to the Compass of my own Knowledge': Dampier's Explorations and Writings; Chap V The 'Cruising Voyages' of Dampier and Rogers; Chap VI 'A Gross, Palpable Illusion': The Founding of the South Sea Company; Chap VII The Age of the Bubble (1): Castaways and Projectors; Chap VIII The Age of the Bubble (2): Voyages Real and Fictitious; Chap IX 'Our Second Drake': Anson's Circumnavigation; Chap X Widening Horizons, Bibliography, Index. Binding tight, pages clean and nmarked, paper white, cover cloth crisp, gilt letters bright on spine. DJ with tiny wear at fr fore-edge tips else Fine. Illustrated DJ in mylar protector. .