Voyages of Discoveryby Captain James Cook | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" "Extreme Classics" |
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| Category: |
"Travel" |
| Pages: | 505 |
| Year of Publication: | 1779 |
| Date Added: | 03/03/1999 |
| Date Read: | 02/22/1999 |
| Notes: | Captain Cook's Journals 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. There are several editions, edited and abridged in one form or another. |
| My Rating: | 8 |