Author : James Cook
Publisher : Rochester, NY : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851157443
Total Pages : 4134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (574 download)
Book Synopsis The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery by : James Cook
Download or read book The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery written by James Cook and published by Rochester, NY : Boydell Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 4134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic set of three volumes in four books plus portfolio, edited from the original manuscripts, provides for the first time a complete, reliable and authoritative text of Cook's account of his voyages of discovery. Published over many years, complete sets of previous edition shave been hard to come by. This reissue makes more widely available to historians a vast range of material relating to all aspects of 18th-century scientific advances. The volumes contain Cook's accounts of his three great voyages in the Endeavour and the Resolution; introductions and detailed notes accompany the texts, and extracts from the journals of Cook's shipmates are printed as appendices. A separate portfolio contains the manuscript charts and views drawn by Cook and his officers, which he regarded as an essential complement to his Journals. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS (All 234 x 156 unless stated)I. The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771: 21 maps, 26 b/w illustrations, cclxxxiv + 696ppII. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775: Col. frontis., 20 maps, 62 b/w illustrations, clxx + 1028ppIII. The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780i. Col. frontis., 16 maps, 65 b/w illustrations, ccxxiv + 720pp;ii. 2 maps, 11 b/w illustrations, viii + 928ppPortfolio: Charts and Views Drawn by Cook and his Officers: 68 charts and views, viii + 68pp, 377 x 248