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The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World (Paperback)
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The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration, Volume 4
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During Charles Darwin's 1831-6 voyage on the Beagle, his on-board
library included 'Cook's voyages' (the edition is not specified).
This illustrated 1821 edition, in seven volumes, is representative
of the versions available in the early nineteenth century. Volumes
3 and 4 cover Cook's second voyage (1772-5), a key objective of
which was to look for a continent in the Southern Ocean. The
explorers sailed to 71 degrees South, within the Antarctic Circle,
encountering stormy weather and icebergs, albatrosses and storm
petrels. On this voyage, the ship's naturalists were Johann
Reinhold Forster and his son Georg (1754-94), who is credited here
as co-author. Volume 4 describes the flora, fauna and people of the
New Hebrides and New Caledonia, the uninhabited Norfolk Island, and
the voyage home via Cape Horn and Tierra del Fuego. The appendix
contains a vocabulary of the Tahitian language as spoken in the
Society Islands.
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