The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery - J.C. Beaglehole

The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery

Volume III, Part I: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780

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Buch | Hardcover
978 Seiten
2015
The Hakluyt Society (Verlag)
978-1-4724-5325-9 (ISBN)
229,95 inkl. MwSt
This third volume of the Journals of Captain James Cook deals with the voyages of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776 – 1780.
Captain James Cook’s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of this edition of Cook’s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Sailing north from Tahiti in 1778, Cook made the first recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in 44° N. The remarkable voyage which he made northward along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and through Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° nearly disproved the existence of a navigable passage towards the Atlantic and produced charts of impressive accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, Cook met his death in a clash with the natives as tragic as it seems unnecessary.

The volume and vitality of the records, both textual and graphic, for this voyage surpass those even for Cook’s second voyage. Dr Beaglehole prints the full text of Cook’s own holograph journals, followed by those of Captains Clerke and King for the course of the voyage after Cook’s death. This is a facsimile reprint of the edition published in 1967. For the print-on-demand edition, the illustrations originally in colour are reproduced in black-and-white, the fold-outs divided to fit on separate pages, and the volume itself split into two parts.

J.C. Beaglehole (13 June 1901 - 10 October 1971), formerly professor at Victoria University College, later the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Textual introduction; Subordinate MS sources; The printed sources; The graphic records; Note on the printing; The instructions; The journal; Supplement to Cook's journal.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Hakluyt Society, Extra Series
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Reisen Reiseberichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-4724-5325-5 / 1472453255
ISBN-13 978-1-4724-5325-9 / 9781472453259
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