The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics)
The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics)
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- ISBN13: 9780140436471
- Condition: New
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The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics) Overviews
A new one-volume abridged edition of Cook’s famous journals–”a majestic story of epic proportions”(iPhilip Edwards in the Introduction/i)brCaptain Cook’s iJournals/i provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions between 1768 and 1779. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga, and a host of previously unknown islands in the Pacific including the Hawaiian Islands. The journals amply reveal the determination, courage, and skill that enabled Cook to wrestle with the continuous dangers of uncharted seas and the problems of achieving a relationship with the peoples whose unannounced guest he became. This edition, abridged from the definitive four-volume Hakluyt Society edition, makes Cook’s inimitable personal account of his years of voyaging widely accessible for the first time and includes an Introduction to each voyage, a Glossary of unusual words, indexes of people and places, and a Postscript assessing the controversy surrounding Cook’s death. brbrSelected and Edited with Introductions by Philip Edwards
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The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics) CustomerReview
This revised edition of Captain James Cook truncated, there is a specialized book of interest to people studying the Exploration of the Pacific and / or the British Navy of the time. Other people might find reading sections dry. The book is aimed at students in Oceanography 17 century voyages of discovery formed the basis for future recommendations cruises.br oceanographic / br / Cook's voyages led scientists at that time, many of whom died from hardConditions, along with crew members. Besides the weather, there were diseases and hostile natives (including cannibals). graphs has been widely conducted and the second trip, provided that the Board of Longitude copy Larcum Kendall Cook of John Harrison's H4 watch for determining longitude. The comments were the prevailing winds, currents, temperature made, and other things interest.br Scientific / br / native throughout the Pacific would have gone to great lengthsFor iron, above the axles, even prostitute their wives and daughters (intentionally or not). Natives would try to steal the goods, if they could, leading to numerous confrontations including one in a boat that the crew of the Adventure (the wife of the second voyage of the ship) were killed and eaten by indigenous Maori New Zealand.br / br / Cook Official ended a few weeks before his death. The publisher of magazines filled with details that other people were traveling, and speculates onwhy he was killed by natives in Hawaii. br / br / The book includes maps of the route of Cook on his travels. He also mentioned a list with the names of several people, a reference to their positions during the trip or their other positions if they were not active participants. While the index of career later cited by some people as William Bligh, does not refer to the career of John Gore (which is like Wikipedia in 1790, died listed).
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