Download or read book Foreign Ships in Micronesia written by Francis X. Hezel and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning in 1522 with the sighting of two small islands in the Carolines from the Spanish ship Trinidad of Magellan's fleet, and ending in 1885 with the flag-raising missions of the German men-of-war SMS Albatros and SMS Nautilus, there are over 1,700 separate entries for the intervening years and a bibliography listing 439 sources, in five languages, ranging from near-illegible whaling logs and the massive German ethnographies on the one hand, to journal articles and scholarly monographs on the other, interspersed with contemporary traders' accounts and missionary reports [...] The individual entries contain six items of basic information, subject to their availability--namely the type of vessel, its name, its hailing port, the purpose of the voyage, name of the captain, and the dates of arrival at and departure from the island(s) visited. This is followed by a neat commentary on the visit, summarizing information of ethnographic interest, and finally a listing of the author's sources"--Publisher's website.
