The Voyages of Captain Cook
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| Title: | The Voyages of Captain Cook |
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| Description: | Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishing accuracy, and the voyages also made a significant contribution towards solving some of the great problems of cartography and navigation. With crews containing gifted sailors and navigators, as well as botanists, painters and scientists, Cook provides the link between the speculative, profit-hungry voyages of the Elizabethan seafarers and the scientific expeditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
| Authors: | James Cook, John Barrow |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Voyages around the world--Early works to 1800 |
| Categories: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishing accuracy, and the voyages also made a significant contribution towards solving some of the great problems of cartography and navigation. With crews containing gifted sailors and navigators, as well as botanists, painters and scientists, Cook provides the link between the speculative, profit-hungry voyages of the Elizabethan seafarers and the scientific expeditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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| ISBN: | 9781848704763 |
