First Encounters. NEW.

Rudiger Mack.

Offers new perspectives on Tasman’s 1642-43 voyage of exploration in the western pacific. Tasman was the first European to circumnavigate Australia and the first to visit Tasmania, New Zealand and Tonga. The author has examined previously untranslated sources in Dutch, French, German and Italian, as well as archeological and visual records. A significant and scholarly work.

Heritage Press, Feilding, 2024.

ISBN 9781991097002

Hardback with dust jacket. 348 pages.

NEW. Fine condition.