It is an alternative reference to the countries of our planet compiled by the Third World Institute in Montevideo, Uruguay. The previous editions have been excellent resources with easy to use search engines. This exciting new title is built around the Australian National Library s precious journal of Captain Cook s travels on the Endeavour between 1768 and 1771. This 3 year long collaboration between the National Maritime Museum and the NLA has captured the journal on CD Rom. JC Beaglehole s transcript.
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Pop-up footnotes help you as well. There are 4 other sections adding 100,000 words of text, images, videos and audio. These sections place the journal in its historical context, bring the period to life and allow the reader to delve into the era of discovery and exploration in which Cook lived. First Published in 1886 volumes 1 and 2 are now digitally published at this very reasonable educational price for public libraries and educational institutions. The original work was created in the late 1880's to commemorate the first century of European settlement and development in Australia.