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  • Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World made in H.M. bark "Endeavour" (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Pacific Exploration, Navigation, and Encounter Aboard Endeavour

    by James Cook, Briony Sableford ...
    Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World records the Endeavour expedition of 1768–1771, from the observation of the transit of Venus at Tahiti to the charting of New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Written in a disciplined, observational prose, the journal combines nautical precision with ethnographic curiosity, natural history, and moments of imperial self ... Read more

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  • The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World (Vol. 1-7) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Complete History of the Ground-breaking Journey

    by James Cook, Georg Forster, James King, Graham Fairmere ...
    The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World gathers in seven volumes one of the eighteenth century's most influential bodies of travel writing, combining nautical record, ethnographic observation, natural history, and imperial encounter. Its narratives range from logbook precision to reflective description, charting the Pacific, Antarctic waters, and northwest American coast while recording ... Read more

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  • Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Round The World (Illustrated)

    by James Cook ...
    The journal of James Cook as he travelled and explored his way around Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and other places. Includes map illustrations. Chapters include: Sketch Of Captain Cook's Life; England To Rio Janeiro; Rio Janeiro To Tahiti; Exploration Of North Island Of New Zealand; Passage From New Zealand To New Holland; Exploration Of East Coast Of Australia; Batavia To Cape Of Good Hope; ... Read more

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  • The Captain Cook´s Journal

    by James Cook ...
    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 of the Hawaiian Island, and his investigation of both the ... Read more

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  • The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World (Vol. 1-7)

    The Complete History of the Ground-breaking Journey

    by James Cook, Georg Forster, James King ...
    The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World (Vol. 1-7) is a remarkable anthology that chronicles the extensive and daring expeditions of Captain James Cook and his companions. This meticulously edited collection weaves together narratives that encapsulate grand themes of exploration, discovery, and cultural encounter, capturing the unyielding spirit of the Age of Enlightenment. The diversity ... Read more

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  • Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World

    by James Cook ...
    Join Captain Cook on a thrilling journey through uncharted waters and distant lands in his renowned journal documenting his First Voyage Round the World. In this captivating account, readers are immersed in the excitement and challenges of exploration during the Age of Discovery. Cook's meticulous observations and vivid descriptions transport us to exotic locales, where we encounter diverse ... Read more

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  • Endeavour: Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World

    by James Cook ...
    Strange it must appear that the account of perhaps the most celebrated and, certainly to the English nation, the most momentous voyage of discovery that has ever taken place--for it practically gave birth to the great Australasian Colonies--has never before been given to the world in the very words of its great leader. It has fallen out in this wise. After the return of the Endeavour it was ... Read more

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  • The Journals of Captain Cook

    by Captain James Cook ...
    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 until this century that the original ... Read more

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  • The Voyages of Captain Cook Around the World (All 7 Volumes)

    by James Cook, Georg Forster, James King ...
    This edition contains the descriptions of the three voyages of Captain Cook, which resulted in the complete round-the-world expedition. Captain and his team were the first Europeans to meet the indigenous people of Australia and Oceania. Captain Cook took a great interest in the locals' style of life and customs. Thus, the book doesn't just present an account of one of the most daring sea ... Read more

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  • The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World, Vol. IV (of VII)

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by James Cook ...
    Series series
    Excerpt: "On the 6th, being the day after leaving Ulietea, at eleven o'clock A. M. we saw land bearing N. W., which, upon a nearer approach, we found to be a low reef island about four leagues in compass, and of a circular form. It is composed of several small patches connected together by breakers, the largest lying on the N. E. part. This is Howe island, discovered by Captain Wallis, who, I ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 1 (Unabridged)

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    by JAMES COOK ...
    Narrated by Kathy Barrick, Jessica Smith, Brian Hill, Victor Gibson ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 18 min

    In May 1768, the Admiralty commissioned the 39-year old Cook to command a scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. The expedition sailed aboard HMS Endeavour in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued to Tahiti, where the observations of the transit were made. Cook then opened sealed orders for the second part of his voyage: to ... Read more

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  • The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World (Complete)

    by James Cook ...
    On the 12th we discovered the islands of Porto Santo and Madeira, and on the next day anchored in Funchiale road, and moored with the stream-anchor: but, in the night, the bend of the hawser of the stream-anchor slipped, owing to the negligence of the person who had been employed to make it fast. In the morning the anchor was heaved up into the boat, and carried out to the southward; but in ... Read more

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