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100 1 _aCook, James,
_d1728-1779.
_1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcR7dqWTK9vyrppxDt7pP
_9797,
_eauthor
240 1 0 _aWorks.
_kSelections.
_f1971
245 1 4 _aThe explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as told by selections of his own journals, 1768-1779 /
_cedited by A. Grenfell Price ; illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton ; with a new introduction by Percy G. Adams.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bDover Publications,
_c[1971]
300 _axix, 292 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aDover books on travel, adventure
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (page xiii).
505 0 0 _tIntroductory --
_gchapter 1.
_tOcean problems of the 18th century --
_gchapter 2.
_tCooks' early life and career --
_tThe first voyage, 1768-1771 --
_gchapter 3.
_tPreparations and instructions --
_gchapter 4.
_tTahiti, 1769 --
_gchapter 5.
_tNew Zealand, 1769-70 --
_gchapter 6.
_tEastern Australia, 1770 --
_gchapter 7.
_tThe voyage concluded --
_tThe second voyage, 1772-1775 --
_gchapter 8.
_tSeeking the southern continent --
_gchapter 9.
_tThe Antarctic, 1772-3 --
_gchapter 10.
_tSearching the Pacific, 1773 --
_gchapter 11.
_tThe Antarctic, 1773-4 --
_gchapter 12.
_tSearching the Pacific, 1774 --
_gchapter 13.
_tThe Antarctic and home, 1774-5 --
_gchapter 14.
_tCook honoured in England --
_tThe third voyage, 1776-1780 --
_gchapter 15.
_tPreparations and instructions --
_gchapter 16.
_tThe central Pacific --
_gchapter 17.
_tThe discovery of Hawaii, 1778 --
_gchapter 18.
_tThe north American coast --
_gchapter 19.
_tThe death of James Cook --
_tConclusion --
_gchapter 20.
_tThe man and his achievements.
520 _a"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.
600 1 0 _aCook, James,
_d1728-1779
_vDiaries.
650 0 _aVoyages around the world
_vEarly works to 1800.
651 0 _aOceania
_xDiscovery and exploration
_vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 _aPrice, A. Grenfell
_q(Archibald Grenfell),
_cSir,
_d1892-
_eeditor.
830 0 _aDover books on travel, adventure.
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/dover031/79145750.html
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