The Isles of the Sea: Being an Entertaining Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Indian Oceans and Embracing Full and Authentic Accounts of the Islands of Polynesia Micronesia and Melanesia (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Isles of the Sea: Being an Entertaining Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Indian Oceans and Embracing Full and Authentic Accounts of the Islands of Polynesia Micronesia and Melanesia<br><br>Who ever heard of a navigator who undertook a voyage of discovery that did not afterwards publish a full and authentic account of his perilous venture with a circumstantial state ment of all his discoveries Such a seaman I opine never sailed - never Will sail. And while the oceans have fairly swarmed with the ships and ?eets of discoverers and the shelves of the book-stores have groaned with their productions still these voyagers have only been able to tell us a partial story and even that has not always been reliable.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.