Autor: Bashford Alison Bashford

The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history. A distinguished international team of historians provides a …

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world’s oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, g …

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world’s oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, g …

A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history. This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victoria …

A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth. This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Isl …