The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery

Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775

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ID9307315
EditorsJ C Beaglehole
Year2017
Publication date2017-07-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueJournals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery : Volume II (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHakluyt Society (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4324/9781315086156
OpenAlexW4248264607
Open LibraryOL39943677M
ISBN9781315086156
LanguageEN
Citations received27

On his second expedition to the Pacific, in the years 1772-5, Captain James Cook made a voyage which, in the annals of exploration, is unsurpassed for grandeur of design and execution and for variety of experience. Cook traversed the Indian and Pacific Oceans in high latitudes, demonstrating that the supposed Southern continent could not extend north of 60°. Cook three times crossed the Antarctic Circle reaching his furthest south in 71° 10 ́, and he proved himself a master of navigation in ice. In the Pacific his discoveries or rediscoveries included the Tonga Islands, Easter Island, the Marquesas, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, with the sub-antarctic islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich group. Captain Furneaux, commanding the consort ship, examined the coasts of Tasmania. The written and graphic records left by Cook himself and by his officers, by the astronomer William Wales and the artist William Hodges, by the naturalists J.R. and George Forster are remarkable in their volume and vitality. The editor, Dr J.C. Beaglehole, here prints the full text of Cook’s own journal, constructed from two holograph MSS and several MS copies, and a great part of Wales’s journal. This facsimile edition reprints the edition of 1961 along with the Addenda and Corrigenda published in 1969. The illustrations originally in colour are reproduced in black-and-white, the fold-outs divided to fit on separate pages, and the volume split into two parts

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