
Exploring the Pacific
Facts On File Inc (Publisher)
Published on 31. March 2005
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-8160-5258-5 (ISBN)
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Description
This text covers: art of the Pacific peoples; Cartography; Early Pacific navigation; Mutiny; Robinson Crusoe; The spice trade; Whaling; Women, slaves, and colonists.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 11 to 17 years
Illustrations
56 illustrations, 23 maps
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 194 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8160-5258-5 (9780816052585)
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Chelsea House Publishers
Exploring the Pacific
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12/2009
Chelsea House Publishers
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Persons
Martha Vail holds an A. B. in history from Smith College and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D., all in history, from Yale University. A former fellow with the University of Colorado's Center for Humanities and the Arts and with the Bass Writing Program, Vail has taught history at Yale University and Tulane University. She served as program officer for the National Faculty for four years, where she designed and implemented multi-year, content-based professional development programs for urban and rural social studies teachers in the Mississippi Delta and recruited and managed a corps of scholars to work with educators in the field. She is a member of the National Council on Public History, Organization of American Historians, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.