Pacific Passions
The European Struggle for Power in the Great Ocean in the Age of Exploration
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The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the planet, but until 1513 no white man even knew it existed. In Pacific Passions, Frank Sherry tells in sweeping narrative the enthralling story of one of the most exciting periods of human history: the first 250 years of European exploration of the Pacific Ocean. It is an unforgettable tale of bold exploration and the cataclysmic events that molded sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Pacific Passions recounts some of the most heroic voyages in human history and places them in their proper historical contexts. It is popular history at its most exciting.
About the Author
Frank Sherry, the author of Raiders and Rebels, a history of the golden age of piracy, is an historian, award-winning journalist, video producer and adventurer. Also a sailor and SCUBA diver, he has sailed throughout the Caribbean and traveled in the Himalayas, the Rockies, Nepal, the Salmon River country of Idaho, and the high desert of New Mexico.