The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific

The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific"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 Scotland born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth century voyages of discovery in the then practically uncharted Pacific. His explorations of the eastern coastline of Australia, leading to its eventual British colonization; his thorough charting of New Zealand, discovery

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