Information About
This book relates the maritime history of the oceanic country of Chile, telling about the past, the discoveries, the commerce, and the role that the Pacific has played in the country's progress and destiny. Further, it makes a summary of the present, and reaches towards the future with a diagram of what is going to come.
Additional Details
- Title
- Chile and the Pacific
- Subject
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- Chile--Relations--Pacific Area
- Chile--History--1920-
- Publisher
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- Cultural Dept., Embassy of Chile to Singapore, 1986
- National Library Board Singapore, 1986
- Contributors
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- Chile. Embassy (Singapore). Cultural Dept.
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill. (some col.)
- Table of Contents
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- pt. one. The past. This discovery of Chile. Asian heritage in Latin American history. Juan Fernandez. Robinson Crusoe. The Calcutta Company. The gates of Chile. Chile and steam navigation in the Pacific. Chile and Japan in the XIX century... -- pt. two. The present. Faith in Chile's seas. A dialogue of man and resources. Antarctica. A geopolitic vision of Chile in the Pacific... -- pt. three. The future. Constitution of the Chilean Committee for Cooperation in the Pacific.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.