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Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1784
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : BSB:BSB10901447
Author : James Cook,John Hawkesworth,Georg Forster,James King
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780760351567
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 : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : HARVARD:32044074321431
Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802714121
An in-depth chronicle of Captain James Cook's three historic voyages recounts his expeditions charting the eastern Australian coast, exploring the northwest coast of North America, circumnavigating New Zealand, and discovering many Pacific islands, setting his accomplishments against the backdrop of the colonialism of his era.
Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Oceania
ISBN : PRNC:32101015400193
Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Oceania
ISBN : UOM:39015022429669
Author : James Cook
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1840221003
Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishing accuracy, and the voyages also made a significant contribution towards solving some of the great problems of cartography and navigation.With crews containing gifted sailors and navigators, as well as botanists, painters and scientists, Cook provides the link between the speculative, profit-hungry voyages of the Elizabethan seafarers and the scientific expeditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590256847
Author : James Cook
Publisher : London : Cresset Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : UOM:39015003523175
Selected from his journals, and edited by Christopher Lloyd.
Author : James Cook
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781513274447
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 : Andrew Kippis
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This helped bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society. This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cook's career and the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In three voyages Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved. As he progressed on his voyages of discovery he surveyed and named features, and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. He displayed a combination of seamanship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage and an ability to lead men in adverse conditions. Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. He left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge which was to influence his successors well into the 20th century and numerous memorials worldwide have been dedicated to him.
Author : James 1728-1779 Cook,John Sir Barrow, 1764-1848
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1360864458
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Author : Lynne Withey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520065646
Makes use of recent scholarship in such disciplines as history, anthropology, art history, and literary criticism to place Captain James Cook in the broader context of Pacific exploration.
Author : William Frame,Laura Walker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773554047
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 : 478 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : BL:A0021702746