TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cook,James
AU  - Price,A.Grenfell
TI  - The explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as told by selections of his own journals, 1768-1779
T2  - Dover books on travel, adventure
SN  - 0486227669
PY  - 1971///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Dover Publications
KW  - Cook, James,
KW  - Voyages around the world
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Discovery and exploration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page xiii); Introductory --; chapter 1; Ocean problems of the 18th century --; chapter 2; Cooks' early life and career --; The first voyage, 1768-1771 --; chapter 3; Preparations and instructions --; chapter 4; Tahiti, 1769 --; chapter 5; New Zealand, 1769-70 --; chapter 6; Eastern Australia, 1770 --; chapter 7; The voyage concluded --; The second voyage, 1772-1775 --; chapter 8; Seeking the southern continent --; chapter 9; The Antarctic, 1772-3 --; chapter 10; Searching the Pacific, 1773 --; chapter 11; The Antarctic, 1773-4 --; chapter 12; Searching the Pacific, 1774 --; chapter 13; The Antarctic and home, 1774-5 --; chapter 14; Cook honoured in England --; The third voyage, 1776-1780 --; chapter 15; Preparations and instructions --; chapter 16; The central Pacific --; chapter 17; The discovery of Hawaii, 1778 --; chapter 18; The north American coast --; chapter 19; The death of James Cook --; Conclusion --; chapter 20; The man and his achievements
N2  - "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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