The explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as told by selections of his own journals, 1768-1779.
By: Edited by A. Granfell Price. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. With a new introd. by Percy G. Adams.
Contributors: Price, A. Grenfell Sir, 1892- ed.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Diaries; Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800; Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Diaries.; Early works to 1800.
Description: "No man ever did more to alter and correct the map of the earth," writes Percy Adams in his new introduction, than James Cook, the Scotch-born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery in the then practically unchartered Pacific.
Notes: Bibliography: p. xiii.