Captain Cook's Three Voyages Round the World: With a Sketch of His Life - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 143045668X ISBN 13 : 9781430456681

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Captain Cook�������s Three Voyages Round The World: With A Sketch Of His Life is a historical non-fiction book written by James Cook, a renowned British explorer and navigator. The book chronicles Cook�������s three voyages around the world, which took place between 1768 and 1779. The first voyage saw Cook set sail in the HMS Endeavour to observe the transit of Venus across the sun from Tahiti. He then went on to chart the coast of New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia, which he claimed for Britain. The second voyage saw Cook attempt to find the fabled southern continent, which he believed existed. He sailed further south than any other explorer before him, but was forced to turn back due to harsh weather conditions. He then went on to explore the South Pacific, including the Society Islands, Tonga, and Easter Island. The third voyage saw Cook attempt to find a northwest passage through the Arctic, which would provide a faster trade route to Asia. However, he was unable to find a passage and instead explored the Pacific Northwest region of North America, including Alaska and Hawaii. The book also includes a sketch of Cook�������s life, from his humble beginnings as a farmhand to his rise as a celebrated explorer. It discusses his achievements, his relationships with his crew and the indigenous peoples he encountered, and his tragic death at the hands of Hawaiian natives. Overall, Captain Cook�������s Three Voyages Round The World: With A Sketch Of His Life is a fascinating account of one of the greatest explorers in history and his incredible adventures.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. It was produced from digital images created through the libraries’ mass digitization efforts. The digital images were cleaned and prepared for printing through automated processes. Despite the cleaning process, occasional flaws may still be present that were part of the original work itself, or introduced during digitization. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library at www.hathitrust.org.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 143045668X
• ISBN 13: 9781430456681
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 516
• Éditeur: Low Charles Rathbone
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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