Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779 - Folio Society edition

Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779

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Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779 - Folio Society edition
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Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779
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Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779

Edition year 1997
Binding Buckram
Illustrator David Eccles
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 552
Dimensions 26 × 18.5 cm

Edition details

Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779. Selected and Introduced by Glyndwr Williams. 14 pages of contemporary paintings and prints. Map endleaves. Coloured page tops. Bound in blue buckram, blocked with a black and gold design by David Eccles. Black slipcase. 26x18.5cm. 552pp

About the book

Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779 recounts the three great Pacific expeditions led by Captain James Cook during the eighteenth century. Cook and his crews charted enormous stretches of previously little-known ocean, mapped coastlines with remarkable accuracy and encountered peoples across the Pacific. The voyages combined navigation, scientific observation and exploration, while also becoming part of the wider history of European expansion and its profound effects on Indigenous societies. His voyages dramatically expanded European geographical knowledge, mapping coastlines and visiting Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and numerous Pacific islands.

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