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LOST ISLANDS

by Henry Stommel

Published by University of British Columbia. 1st CANADA. 1984

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The story of islands that have vanished from nautical charts. Large format. Grey cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations.

Some light edge-creasing and browning to wrapper.

ISBN: 0774802103
Stock no. 2138630

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Contents

  • List of Maps
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword by Rear-Admiral G.S. Ritchie R.N. (Ret.)
  • Preface
  • 1 Islands of Gold and Silver
  • 2 Celestial Navigation Comes of Age
  • 3 The Garden Islands - Los Jardines
  • 4 The Fake Island of Captain Benjamin Morrell
  • 5 Captain Morrell Unmasked
  • 6 Two Dangers off California
  • 7 Wilkes and Whalers in the Equatorial Pacific
  • 8 Discovery by Premonition: Kingman Reef and Fanning Island
  • 9 American Polynesia
  • 10 Captain John DeGreave's Lost Island
  • 11 Tuanahe, the Inhabited Island That Sank
  • 12 The Islomane Who Met a Grisly End
  • 13 Real Islands That Go Up and Down
  • 14 Icy Islands of the Southern Pacific
  • 15 The Well-Explored North Atlantic
  • 16 Who Owns the Auroras?
  • 17 Three to One: Bouvet Island
  • 18 We Discover Our Own Lost Island (1980)
  • 19 Do Satellites Settle the Hash?
  • 20 The 1875 Revision of teh Admiralty Pacific Chart
  • 21 The 1808 Admiralty Chart of the South Atlantic
  • 22 The 1817 Admiralty Chart of the Indian Ocean
  • Appendix 1. Jeremiah Reynolds's 1828 List
  • Appendix 2. Bibliography
  • Index

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