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ОглавлениеContents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Maps
Preface
Chapter 1: Setting Sail
Chapter 2: First Sight
Chapter 3: The Origins of the Sextant
Chapter 4: Bligh’s Boat Journey
Chapter 5: Anson’s Ordeals
Chapter 6: The Marine Chronometer
Chapter 7: Celestial Timekeeping
Chapter 8: Captain Cook Charts the Pacific
Chapter 9: Bougainville in the South Seas
Chapter 10: La Pérouse Vanishes
Chapter 11: The Travails of George Vancouver
Chapter 12: Flinders – Coasting Australia
Chapter 13: Flinders – Shipwreck and Captivity
Chapter 14: Voyages of the Beagle
Chapter 15: Slocum Circles the World
Chapter 16: Endurance
Chapter 17: ‘These are men’
Chapter 18: Two Landfalls
Epilogue
Picture Section
Footnotes
Notes
List of Illustrations
Bibliography
Glossary of Technical Terms
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Publisher
