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The Voyage of George Vancouver 1791-1795 vol III (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Voyage of George Vancouver 1791-1795 vol III (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series
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Four of the greatest maritime exploring expeditions were crammed
into two decades late in the 18th century - Cook's third voyage,
the French expedition commanded by La P use, the Malaspina
expedition sent out by Spain, and George Vancouver's Voyage of
Discovery. All four visited the northwest coast of North America,
but weather and circumstances prevented Cook from making more than
what Beaglehole calls ' a magnificent, an epoch-making
reconnaissance'; La P use only touched the coast in a significant
way at Yakutat Bay and Lituya Bay, and Malasina's memorable visits
were to Yakutat Bay and Nootka Sound. Vancouver, by contrast,
surveyed the enormous extent of coast from Lower California to Cook
Inlet, and his meticulous survey literally set out on the map of
the world the intricacies of Puget Sound and the western coast of
mainland Canada. It was an achievement that places him with his
mentor, Cook, in the first rank of marine surveyors. As a
midshipman Vancouver had been with Cook when he discovered the
Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands in 1778. They attracted his interest,
and the attention he devoted to the islands, their inhabitants and
their political future when he twice later wintered there will
surprise many. This is the first annotated edition of Vancouver's
journal as he revised it for publication in 1798. The original
manuscript has disappeared, but fortunately no fewer than 25
partial or complete logs or journals by other members of the
expedition have survived. These supplement Vancouver's narrative at
many points. It has been possible to identify virtually all the
host of islands, channels and inlets that Vancouver encountered,
and the provenance of most of the approximately 400 place names he
bestowed, nine out of ten of which are still in use, is indicated.
This volume in the set includes the remainder of Book 3, all Book
4, part of Book 5, of a new and annotated edition of A Voyage of
Discovery ... (London, 1798). The main pagination of this, the
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