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Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage round the World, made in H.M. Bark Endeavour, 1768-71 - A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS (Paperback)
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Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage round the World, made in H.M. Bark Endeavour, 1768-71 - A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
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Famed for his exploration of the Pacific and Australasia, James
Cook (1728 79) was also an excellent surveyor and a meticulous
keeper of records. The journal entries presented here cover Cook's
first voyage around the world aboard the Endeavour, during which he
mapped New Zealand and claimed the eastern coastline of Australia
for George III, having made landfall at Botany Bay. Cook's journal
is an invaluable first-hand account containing nautical details of
his voyage around the Pacific as well as geographical observations,
descriptions of flora and fauna, and notes on the peoples, cultures
and languages encountered. Critical of the 1773 Hawkesworth edition
(also reissued in this series), the naval officer William James
Lloyd Wharton (1843 1905) published this annotated transcription of
Cook's journal in 1893. A number of illustrations, maps and
facsimiles of some entries are spread throughout the text. The work
also contains a sketch of Cook's life."
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