The explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as told by selections of his own journals, 1768-1779 / edited by A. Grenfell Price ; illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton ; with a new introduction by Percy G. Adams.

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Cook, James, 1728-1779 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, Dover Publications [1971]
Description
xix, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    Dover books on travel, adventure [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "No man ever did more to alter and correct the map of the earth," writes Percy Adams in his new introduction, than James Cook, the Scotch-born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery in the then practically unchartered Pacific.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii).
    Original version
    Originally published: New York : Limited Editions Club, 1957.
    Contents
    • Introductory
    • ch. 1. Ocean problems of the 18th century
    • ch. 2. Cooks' early life and career
    • The first voyage, 1768-1771
    • ch. 3. Preparations and instructions
    • ch. 4. Tahiti, 1769
    • ch. 5. New Zealand, 1769-70
    • ch. 6. Eastern Australia, 1770
    • ch. 7. The voyage concluded
    • The second voyage, 1772-1775
    • ch. 8. Seeking the southern continent
    • ch. 9. The Antarctic, 1772-3
    • ch. 10. Searching the Pacific, 1773
    • ch. 11. The Antarctic, 1773-4
    • ch. 12. Searching the Pacific, 1774
    • ch. 13. The Antarctic and home, 1774-5
    • ch. 14. Cook honoured in England
    • The third voyage, 1776-1780
    • ch. 15. Preparations and instructions
    • ch. 16. The central Pacific
    • ch. 17. The discovery of Hawaii, 1778
    • ch. 18. The north American coast
    • ch. 19. The death of James Cook
    • Conclusion
    • ch. 20. The man and his achievements.
    ISBN
    • 0486227669 ((paperback))
    • 9780486227665 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    79145750
    OCLC
    334500
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