Robert Langdon - Correspondence re book The lost caravel, 1975-1987

PMB 999

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

440813

Microfilm : PMB 999

hree microfilm reels 35 mm

The Lost Caravel was published in June 1975 by Pacific Publications Pty Ltd., Sydney. The books puts forward the theory that the crew of a Spanish ship, the caravel San Lesmes, lost in the eastern South Pacific in 1526, played a prominent role in the prehistory of several Polynesian islands, including the Tuamotu Archipelago, Society Islands, Austral Islands, Easter Island and New Zealand. The San Lesmes was one of the ships of the expedition of Garcia Jofre de Loaisa which left Spain in July 1525 to obtain a cargo of spices in the East Indies

The correspondence includes comments on the book following its publication and Langdon's subsequent research into related matters discussed in the book. The correspondence is in three parts: (1) General correspondence, 1975-1980 (2) Correspondence, 1978-1987, re the conservation of two iron cannon retrieved from Amanu Atoll, French Polynesia, in 1969. (3) General correspondence, 1981-1987. A calendar for each section of correspondence precedes the correspondence itself on the microfilm. Sections (1) and (3) are filmed in alphabetical order by correspondent and then in chronological order; section (2) is microfilmed in chronological order. The contents of each reel of microfilm is as follows: Reel 1 Section (1), A - Kish; 2 Section (1), Ko. - Z; Section (2) to 1986; 3 Section (2), 1987; Section (3)

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 999
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Microfilm copy of original in private ownership