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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cook, James, 1728-1779. Seventy north to fifty south. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1969] (OCoLC)654274007 |
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Named Person: | James Cook; James Cook |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Cook; Paul W Dale |
OCLC Number: | 11785 |
Notes: | Includes references to New Zealand. Selected from: A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken by command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 : being a copious, comprehensive, and satisfactory abridgement of the voyage written by James Cook and James King. London : Printed for John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding and John Hardy, 1784. |
Description: | xii, 370 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Preparations -- To the Canary Islands -- To Cape Town -- Antarctic Islands -- Across the South Indian Ocean and on to New Zealand -- New Zealand -- A new island -- The island of Atiu -- Discovery of other islands in the Cook Archipelago -- The Friendly Islands -- Tongatapu -- Tahiti revisited -- The first visit to Mooréa -- Omai returns home -- Raiatéa and Bora Bora -- Discovery of Hawaii -- The coast of North America -- Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island -- Explorations and discoveries in Southern Alaska -- Discovery of Cook Inlet -- Russian letters -- Penetration of the frozen North -- Return to Hawaii -- Hawaii -- Hawaiian life -- Departure from Hawaii -- Disastrous misunderstandings -- Mr. Cook, Captain of ships and men, navigator of the world -- Epilogue. |
Other Titles: | Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. 70 north to 50 south |
Responsibility: | condensed, edited, and annotated by Paul W. Dale. |
Abstract:
1776-80. Explorations of Nootka Sound and Alaska in 1778, including the discovery of Cook Inlet.
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