A journal of a voyage round the world
Subtitle: in His Majesty's ship Endeavour, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771; undertaken in pursuit of natural knowledge, at the desire of the Royal society: containing all the various occurrences of the voyage, with descriptions of several new discovered countries in the southern hemisphere; and accounts of their soil and productions; and of many singularities in the structure, apparel, customs, manners, policy, manufactures, &c., of their inhabitants. To which is added, a concise vocabulary of Otahitee ...
Contributors: Cook, James, 1728-1779.; Walter, Richard, 1716?-1785, comp.
Publisher: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt
Published: 1771
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Endeavour (Ship); Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800; Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: The first printed account of Captain Cook's voyage. cf. Sabin 16242.
Attributed by some authorities to Capt. Cook; said by others to have been compiled by Sir Joseph Banks or John Hawkesworth from the Journal of Sydney Parkinson, but does not correspond with the published journal of Cook, Banks or Parkinson.
With this are bound XLII folded plates, including maps, belonging to Richard Walter's A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. London, 1748.