Exploring the Pacific (Discovery & Exploration)

Vail, Martha

ISBN 10: 1604131977 ISBN 13: 9781604131970

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 2009

Synopsis

Explains how explores of the Pacific region expanded geographical knowledge and contributed to human understanding by generating maps, charts, paintings, and reports. This book covers such explorers as Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, Alvaro de Mendana, and James Cook.

About this title

About the Author:

Martha Vail holds an A. B. in history from Smith College and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D., all in history, from Yale University. A former fellow with the University of Colorado's Center for Humanities and the Arts and with the Bass Writing Program, Vail has taught history at Yale University and Tulane University. She served as program officer for the National Faculty for four years, where she designed and implemented multi-year, content-based professional development programs for urban and rural social studies teachers in the Mississippi Delta and recruited and managed a corps of scholars to work with educators in the field. She is a member of the National Council on Public History, Organization of American Historians, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1604131977
• ISBN 13: 9781604131970
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Isserman Maurice, Bowman John S.