Title: The explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as told by selections of his own journals, 1768-1779
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.
Subjects: Early works to 1800, Voyages around the world, Diaries, Discovery and exploration, Voyages and travels, Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Diaries, Oceania, discovery and exploration, Voyages autour du monde, Découverte et exploration
Places: Oceania
People: James Cook (1728-1779)