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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TextSeries: Dover books on travel, adventurePublisher: New York : Dover Publications, [1971]Description: xix, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0486227669
- 9780486227665
- Works. Selections. 1971
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TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection | PAC 919.92 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | FEAH25072406 |
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.
"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.