Captain Cooks Three Voyages To The Pacific Ocean

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 0760351562
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyages of Captain James Cook written by James Cook and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever illustrated account of the explorer and cartographer’s epic eighteenth-century Pacific voyages, complete with excerpts from his journals. This is history’s greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task completed, his ship, the HMS Endeavour, continued to comb the southern hemisphere for the imagined continent Terra Australis. The voyage lasted from 1768 to 1771, and upon Cook’s return to London, his journaled accounts of the expedition made him a celebrity. After that came two more voyages for Cook and his crew—followed by Cook’s murder by natives in Hawaii. The Voyages of Captain James Cook reveals Cook’s fascinating story through journal excerpts, illustrations, photography, and supplementary writings. During Cook’s career, he logged more than 200,000 miles—nearly the distance to the moon. And along the way, scientists and artists traveling with him documented exotic flora and fauna, untouched landscapes, indigenous peoples, and much more. In addition to the South Pacific, Cook’s voyages took him to South America, Antarctica, New Zealand, the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska, the Arctic Circle, Siberia, the East Indies, and the Indian Ocean. When he set out in 1768, more than one-third of the globe was unmapped. By the time Cook died in 1779, he had created charts so accurate that some were used into the 1990s. The Voyages of Captain James Cook is a handsome illustrated edition of Cook’s selected writings spanning his Pacific voyages, ending in 1779 with the delivery of his salted scalp and hands to his surviving crewmembers. It’s an enthralling read for anyone who appreciates history, science, art, and classic adventure.

Author : James Cook
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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802714129
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cook written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth chronicle of Captain James Cook's three historic voyages recounts his expeditions charting the eastern Australian coast, exploring the northwest coast of North America, circumnavigating New Zealand, and discovering many Pacific islands, setting his accomplishments against the backdrop of the colonialism of his era.

Author : John Rickman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016109994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, On Discovery: Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779. Illustrated With Cuts, and a written by John Rickman and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James Cook
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Captain Cook's Three Voyages to the Pacific Ocean ... written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Cook
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Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Captain Cook's Three Voyages to the Pacific Ocean written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Cook
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Around the World written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nigel Rigby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472957741
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Pacific Exploration written by Nigel Rigby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands – and tested all Cook's skills as a navigator, seaman and leader. His voyages were among the first to take civilian scientists, notably Sir Joseph Banks, and they revealed to European eyes the mysterious and exotic lands, peoples, flora and fauna of the Pacific, never before seen. But while Cook understandably dominates the story of 18th-century Pacific exploration, the achievements of those who followed him on many voyages of science and exploration into the Pacific have been neglected and deprived of the greater attention they deserve. Correcting this imbalance, Pacific Exploration explores the European voyages that continued Cook's work not only of charting but also starting to exploit and control the Pacific. These voyages, by William Bligh, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders, Malaspina, Lapérouse and Arthur Phillip, span a period that saw Britain becoming the world's leading maritime power, a situation well in place by the time that Charles Darwin's voyage in Fitzroy's Beagle laid the basis of even greater understanding of the development of life on earth. Recounting and illustrating these achievements and legacies using fascinating text and beautiful illustrations and artworks from the period, this book explores topics of scientific discovery, engagement with indigenous peoples, the use of shipboard artists and scientists, the growing professionalism of the hydrographic service, the vessels used and the colonial, commercial and imperial contexts of the voyages.

Author : Cook
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Total Pages : pages
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Author : James Cook
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book Captain Cook's Third and Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780 written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: