Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
The Voyages of Captain James Cook : The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Voyages - Nicholas Thomas

The Voyages of Captain James Cook

The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Voyages

By: Nicholas Thomas (Editor), James Cook, John Hawkesworth, Georg Forster, James King

eBook | 1 November 2016 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eBook


RRP $53.99

$43.99

19%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $11.00 with

 or 

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

The first-ever illustrated account of the explorer and cartographer's epic eighteenth-century Pacific voyages, complete with excerpts from his journals.
This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task completed, his ship, the HMS Endeavour, continued to comb the southern hemisphere for the imagined continent Terra Australis. The voyage lasted from 1768 to 1771, and upon Cook's return to London, his journaled accounts of the expedition made him a celebrity. After that came two more voyages for Cook and his crew—followed by Cook's murder by natives in Hawaii. The Voyages of Captain James Cook reveals Cook's fascinating story through journal excerpts, illustrations, photography, and supplementary writings.
During Cook's career, he logged more than 200,000 miles—nearly the distance to the moon. And along the way, scientists and artists traveling with him documented exotic flora and fauna, untouched landscapes, indigenous peoples, and much more. In addition to the South Pacific, Cook's voyages took him to South America, Antarctica, New Zealand, the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska, the Arctic Circle, Siberia, the East Indies, and the Indian Ocean. When he set out in 1768, more than one-third of the globe was unmapped. By the time Cook died in 1779, he had created charts so accurate that some were used into the 1990s.
The Voyages of Captain James Cook is a handsome illustrated edition of Cook's selected writings spanning his Pacific voyages, ending in 1779 with the delivery of his salted scalp and hands to his surviving crewmembers. It's an enthralling read for anyone who appreciates history, science, art, and classic adventure.

on

More in Biographies

Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

eBOOK

eBook

$1.99

Paris in Love - Eloisa James

eBOOK

$11.99

The Menzies Era - John Howard

eBOOK

$9.99

Lion : A Long Way Home - Saroo Brierley

eBOOK

Six Days in Leningrad - Paullina Simons

eBOOK