The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779Heritage Press, 1958 - 292 The diaries of James Cook, the Scotch-born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery in the then practically unchartered Pacific. |
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OCEAN PROBLEMS OF THE 18TH CENTURY I | 1 |
COOKS EARLY LIFE AND CAREER | 9 |
H M Bark Endeavour | 11 |
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