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Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the natural history of the Pacific. Accounts based on Cook's journals were issued at the time, but it was not until this century that the original journals were published in Beaglehole's definitive edition. "The Journals" tells the story of these voyages as Cook wanted it to be told, radiating the ambition, courage and skill which enabled him to carry out an unrivalled series of expeditions in dangerous waters.
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• The first voyage 1768-1771
• The second voyage 1772-1775
• The third voyage 1776-1779
• Chart of the voyage of Captain James Cook.

• Vol I: introduction to the first voyage-- note on Polynesian history-- textual introduction-- subordinate manuscript sources - Cook's log, other logs and journals, civilians' journals-- the printed sources-- the graphic records-- note on the printing of the text-- note on the annotation-- the instructions-- the journal-- appendices - Cook's letters and reports describing the voyage, the Royal Society and the voyage. Vol II: textual introduction-- subordinate manuscript sources - Cook's log, other logs and journals, civilians' journals-- the printed sources-- the graphic records-- note on the annotation-- the instructions-- the journal-- appendices - Cook's letters and reports on and about the voyage, the controversy over the "Resolution", the Board of Longitude and the voyage, extracts from officers' records. Vol III, part I: textual introduction-- subordinate manuscript sources - logs and journals, miscellaneous-- the printed sources-- the graphic records-- notes on the printing-- the instructions-- the journal-- supplement to Cook's journal. Vol III, part II: appendices - Anderson's journal, Samwell's journal, extracts from officers' journals, the ships' companies, calendar of documents.
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This classic set of three volumes in four books plus portfolio, edited from the original manuscripts, provides for the first time a complete, reliable and authoritative text of Cook's account of his voyages of discovery. Published over many years, complete sets of previous editions have been hard to come by. This reissue makes more widely available to historians a vast range of material relating to all aspects of 18th-century scientific advances. The volumes contain Cook's accounts of his three great voyages in the Endeavour and the Resolution; introductions and detailed notes accompany the texts, and extracts from the journals of Cook's shipmates are printed as appendices. A separate portfolio contains the manuscript charts and views drawn by Cook and his officers, which he regarded as an essential complement to his Journals. Bibliographical details include (all 234 x 156 unless stated): The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771 - 21 maps, 26 b/w illustrations, cclxxxiv and 696pp; The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775 - Col. Frontis., 20 maps, 62 b/w illustrations, clxx and 1028pp; The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 - Col. Frontis., 16 maps, 65 b/w illustrations, ccxxiv and 720pp; 2 maps, 11 b/w illustrations, viii and 928pp; Portfolio - Charts and Views Drawn by Cook and his Officers - 68 charts and views, viii and 68pp, 377 x 248.
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