The explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as told by selections of his own journals, 1768-1779
by James Cook
"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.
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