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Genre/Form: | Diaries Early works Early works to 1800 |
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Named Person: | James Cook; James Cook |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Cook; A Grenfell Price, Sir |
ISBN: | 0486227669 9780486227665 |
OCLC Number: | 334500 |
Description: | xix, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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. |
Other Titles: | Works. |
Responsibility: | edited by A. Grenfell Price ; illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton ; with a new introduction by Percy G. Adams. |
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Abstract:
"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.
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