Voyages of discovery : Captain Cook and the exploration of the Pacific / Lynne Withey.
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TextPublisher: New York : Morrow, [1987]Copyright date: copyright 1987Edition: 1st edDescription: 512 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0688051154
- 9780688051150
- 0520065646
- 9780520065642
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TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection | PAC 919.04 WIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | FEAH25082518 |
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-499) and index.
Preface -- Prologue : The Royal Society plans a voyage -- [pt]. 1. Foundations : Pacific exploration before Cook -- 1. The world beyond Europe -- 2. Old ideas and new strategies -- 3. Paradise discovered -- 4. Preparations -- [pt]. 2. The discovery of Polynesia -- 5. Tahiti -- 6. Amateur ethnographers -- 7. In search of the Southern Continent -- 8. Homeward -- 9. Mr. Bank's voyage -- [pt]. 3. Circumnavigating the Antarctic -- 10. to the Antarctic -- 11. Return to Tahiti -- 12. The second Antarctic summer -- 13. Island hopping across the Pacific -- 14. The islands of Quiros -- 15. Mai -- [pt]. 4. The search for a Northwest passage -- 16. The "friendly islands" -- 17. Mai returns -- 18. To the Arctic -- 19. Kealakekua Bay -- 20. Cook the hero -- [pt]. 5. Exploration and empire : the legacy of Cook's voyage -- 21. Exploiting the Pacific : convicts, furs, and breadfruit -- 22. The end of an era : Vancouver in the Pacific -- References -- Index.
Makes use of recent scholarship in such disciplines as history, anthropology, art history, and literary criticism to place Captain James Cook in the broader context of Pacific exploration.