The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific: As Told by Selections of His Own Journals

by James Cook

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"No man ever did more to alter and correct the map of the Earth," writes Percy Adams in his new Introduction, than James Cook, the Scotland-born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery in the then practically uncharted Pacific. His explorations of the eastern coastline of Australia, leading to its eventual British colonization; his thorough charting of New Zealand, discovery...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0486227669

ISBN13:9780486227665

Release Date:June 1971

Publisher:Dover Publications

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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