A Travel Guide To Captain James Cook S New Zealand

Author : Graeme Lay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : 1869664604

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A Travel Guide to Captain James Cook's New Zealand by Graeme Lay Pdf

New Zealand remained a special place during James Cook's epic voyages of discovery and exploration. He returned to the country several times, mainly to Ship Cove in Queen Charlotte sound, which became his favourite New Zealand anchorage. In his journals he comments on the great potential of the islands of New Zealand for British settlement, forestry and farming. This book depicts, in words, maps and photographs, the places of special importance which James Cook visited, first in HMS Endeavour in 1769, and then in HMS Resolution in 1773 and 1777. Fortuitously for Cook, and for the contemporary visitor, these are some of the most attractive locations in New Zealand. This guide will illustrate the locations, lead you to them, and explain their provenance, with contemporary travel detail along with historical excerpts drawn from the journals of Captain James Cook.

Author : James Cook,Archibald Grenfell Price
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486227665

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The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779 by James Cook,Archibald Grenfell Price Pdf

Selections from Cook's journals of the first voyage (1768-1771) to Tahiti, New Zealand and Eastern Australia; second voyage (1772-1775) to the Antarctic and the Pacific; third voyage (1776-1780) to Hawaii, the north American coast; eye-witness accounts of Cook's death in Hawaii.

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : HARVARD:32044074321431

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The Voyages of Captain James Cook by James Cook Pdf

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 188?
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : OCLC:16325175

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The Three Famous Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World by James Cook Pdf

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781513274447

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The Journals of Captain Cook by James Cook Pdf

Depicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored and reliable narrative of adventures spanning across the globe. The Journals of James Cook depict three of Captain James Cook’s most glorious expeditions, starting in 1768 and leading to Cook’s tragic death in 1779. Having ventured all over the Pacific, Cook encountered lands not yet charted by the British. Though his discoveries and maps inadvertently led to British colonization, Cook held a deep respect for the native people he encountered. He recorded their practices and wrote of them fondly. Cook even befriended some of the native people he encountered, including a Tahitian man who, after hearing of Cook’s homeland, wanted to visit it as well. Per the man’s request, Cook sailed him to Britain, where the man stayed until he and Cook sailed back to Tahiti three years later. After charting Australia, and the whole coast of New Zealand, Cook was involved in a plot to kidnap a Hawaiian monarch and ransom them in order to recover stolen property. He was killed during this expedition, leaving behind a legacy of a detailed description of the Pacific Ocean and its coasts. James Cook’s expeditions around the world and his detailed and innovative work as a cartographer inspired advancements in scientific, medical, historical and geological fields. His influence has also reached the literary world, inspiring novel series and characters, including the infamous Captain Hook. Exuding ambition, courage, and confidence, The Journals of James Cook provide a privileged peak into the travels and accomplishments of an adventurous, and invaluable man. Packed with wonder but free of imperialistic arrogance, The Journals of James Cook serve as a valuable an intriguing primary source of a time when places in the world were yet to be mapped. Now presented in an easy-to-read font and redesigned with a stunning new cover, James Cook’ The Journals of James Cook is accommodating to contemporary readers, providing a fresh version of the esteemed literary work while preserving its wonders and adventures.

Author : Martin Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743436397

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Farther Than Any Man by Martin Dugard Pdf

James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (at times to a fault), intellect (though Cook was routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness. When Great Britain announced a major circumnavigation in 1768 -- a mission cloaked in science, but aimed at the pursuit of world power -- it came as a political surprise that James Cook was given command. Cook's surveying skills had contributed to the British victory over France in the Seven Years' War in 1763, but no commoner had ever commanded a Royal Navy vessel. Endeavor's stunning three-year journey changed the face of modern exploration, charting the vast Pacific waters, the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, and making landfall in Tahiti, Tierra del Fuego, and Rio de Janeiro. After returning home a hero, Cook yearned to get back to sea. He soon took control of the Resolution and returned to his beloved Pacific, in search of the elusive Southern Continent. It was on this trip that Cook's taste for power became an obsession, and his legendary kindness to island natives became an expectation of worship -- traits that would lead him first to greatness, then to catastrophe. Full of action, lush description, and fascinating historical characters like King George III and Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and gruesome demise of Capt. James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on traveling farther than any man.

Author : J.C. Beaglehole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1399 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351543217

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The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery by J.C. Beaglehole Pdf

Captain James Cook?s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of Dr J.C. Beaglehole?s edition of Cook?s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Its objective was the discovery of ?a Northern Passage by sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean? - the North-west Passage, sought since the 16th century, which would have transformed the pattern of world trade. The search was to take Cook into high latitudes where, as in the Antarctic, his skill in ice navigation was tested. Sailing north from Tahiti in 1778, Cook made the first recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in 44° N. The remarkable voyage which he made northward along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and through Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° nearly disproved the existence of a navigable passage towards the Atlantic and produced charts of impressive accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, Cook met his death in a clash with the natives as tragic as it seems unnecessary. Dr Beaglehole discusses, with sympathy and insight, the tensions which led Cook, by then a tired man, into miscalculations alien to his own nature and habits. The volume and vitality of the records, both textual and graphic, for this voyage surpass those even for Cook?s second voyage. The surgeons William Anderson and David Samwell, both admirable observers, left journals which are also here printed in full for the first time. The documentation is completed, as in the previous volumes, by appendixes of documents and correspondence and by reproductions of original drawings and paintings mainly by John Webber, the artist of the expedition. In Dr Beaglehole?s words, ?no one can study attentively the records of Cook?s third, and last, v

Author : Graeme Lay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1921024542

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A Travel Guide to Captain James Cook's Australia by Graeme Lay Pdf

Today's visitors to Australia's east coast can visit numerous places that James Cook literally put on the map. This guide leads readers to them and explains their historicprovenance and significance and includes quotations from Cook's log.A Guide to James Cook's Australia enables contemporary readers to recognise the importanceof Cook's epic feat in charting this fascinating coast, and to savour its marvellous natural attractions.

Author : James Cook,John Hawkesworth,Georg Forster,James King
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780760351567

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The Voyages of Captain James Cook by James Cook,John Hawkesworth,Georg Forster,James King Pdf

The first-ever illustrated account of the explorer and cartographer’s epic eighteenth-century Pacific voyages, complete with excerpts from his journals. This is history’s greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task completed, his ship, the HMS Endeavour, continued to comb the southern hemisphere for the imagined continent Terra Australis. The voyage lasted from 1768 to 1771, and upon Cook’s return to London, his journaled accounts of the expedition made him a celebrity. After that came two more voyages for Cook and his crew—followed by Cook’s murder by natives in Hawaii. The Voyages of Captain James Cook reveals Cook’s fascinating story through journal excerpts, illustrations, photography, and supplementary writings. During Cook’s career, he logged more than 200,000 miles—nearly the distance to the moon. And along the way, scientists and artists traveling with him documented exotic flora and fauna, untouched landscapes, indigenous peoples, and much more. In addition to the South Pacific, Cook’s voyages took him to South America, Antarctica, New Zealand, the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska, the Arctic Circle, Siberia, the East Indies, and the Indian Ocean. When he set out in 1768, more than one-third of the globe was unmapped. By the time Cook died in 1779, he had created charts so accurate that some were used into the 1990s. The Voyages of Captain James Cook is a handsome illustrated edition of Cook’s selected writings spanning his Pacific voyages, ending in 1779 with the delivery of his salted scalp and hands to his surviving crewmembers. It’s an enthralling read for anyone who appreciates history, science, art, and classic adventure.

Author : William Frame,Laura Walker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773554047

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James Cook by William Frame,Laura Walker Pdf

The twenty-fifth of August 2018 marks the 250th anniversary of the departure of the Endeavour from Plymouth, England, and the first of three voyages by James Cook that would nearly complete the map of the world. Interweaving accounts of scientific discovery with the personal stories of the voyages’ key participants, William Frame and Laura Walker explore the charting of the Pacific and the natural world, the first encounters and exchange between Western and indigenous cultures, and the representation of the voyages in art. The illustrations, many of which have never before been published, include drawings by all the artists employed on the voyages, including Alexander Buchan, Sydney Parkinson, William Hodges, and John Webber. It also includes the only surviving paintings by Tupaia, a Polynesian high priest and navigator who joined the first voyage at Tahiti and sailed with Cook to New Zealand and Australia. A stunningly illustrated object-centred history, James Cook: The Voyages offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to discover the extensive Captain Cook collection of the British Library, including original maps, artworks, journals, and printed books.

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : BL:A0023208517

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Cook's Voyages Round the World by James Cook Pdf

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1784
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : BSB:BSB10901447

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A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean by James Cook Pdf

Author : J. C. Beaglehole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Pacific Area
ISBN : 1472453239

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The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery by J. C. Beaglehole Pdf

This first volume of the Journals of Captain James Cook deals with the voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771.

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN : NYPL:33433003270620

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The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World by James Cook Pdf

Author : J.C. Beaglehole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351543224

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The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery by J.C. Beaglehole Pdf

Captain James Cook’s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of Dr J.C. Beaglehole’s edition of Cook’s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Its objective was the discovery of ’a Northern Passage by sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean’ - the North-west Passage, sought since the 16th century, which would have transformed the pattern of world trade. The search was to take Cook into high latitudes where, as in the Antarctic, his skill in ice navigation was tested. Sailing north from Tahiti in 1778, Cook made the first recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in 44° N. The remarkable voyage which he made northward along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and through Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° nearly disproved the existence of a navigable passage towards the Atlantic and produced charts of impressive accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, Cook met his death in a clash with the natives as tragic as it seems unnecessary. Dr Beaglehole discusses, with sympathy and insight, the tensions which led Cook, by then a tired man, into miscalculations alien to his own nature and habits. The volume and vitality of the records, both textual and graphic, for this voyage surpass those even for Cook’s second voyage. The surgeons William Anderson and David Samwell, both admirable observers, left journals which are also here printed in full for the first time. The documentation is completed, as in the previous volumes, by appendixes of documents and correspondence and by reproductions of original drawings and paintings mainly by John Webber, the artist of the expedition. In Dr Beaglehole’s words, ’no one can study attentively the records of Cook’s third, and last, v