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

People: James Cook (1728-1779)

Places: Oceania