by James Cook · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781840221008
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«The Voyages of Captain Cook» is the account of travel and exploration by James Cook, published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (496 pages, in English).
The book covers the three voyages of discovery that James Cook led between 1768 and 1779, landmarks of maritime exploration. Cook mapped vast areas of the globe with great precision, and his expeditions, with sailors, botanists, painters and scientists, laid the foundations of later scientific navigation.
It belongs to the Wordsworth Classics of World Literature collection. This edition, published in 1998, is based on the text compiled by Sir John Barrow and includes an introduction by Simon Marshall.
For readers interested in the history of navigation, scientific expeditions and great explorers.
Captain James Cook was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779. He completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand, and led the first recorded visit by Europeans to the east coast of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.
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