The Journals of Captain Cook - Captain James Cook

The writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer—the subject of the New York Times bestseller The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the natural history of the Pacific. Accounts based on Cook's journals were issued at the time, but it was not... Zobrazit více