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Discoveries : the voyages of Captain Cook / Nicholas Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Allen Lane, 2003.Description: xxxvii, 468 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsims ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0713995572 :
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Contents:
Introduction: History's man -- Pt. 1. England's Atlantic -- 1. Cook's maps -- 2. Bank's books -- Pt. 2. To the South Sea -- 3. Punished Henry Stephens Seaman -- 4. As miserable a set of People as are this day upon Earth -- 5. As favourable to our purpose as we could wish -- 6. In order to seize upon the people -- 7. He was laughed at by the Indians -- 8. An alarming and I may say terrible Circumstance -- 9. The Calamitous Situation we are at present in -- 10. My intentions certainly were not criminal -- Pt. 3. Towards the South Pole -- 11. The Inhospitable parts I am going to -- 12. Mingling my tears with hers -- 13. We are the innocent cause of this war -- 14. The varieties of the human species -- 15. The Southern Hemisphere sufficiently explored -- 16. Now I am going to be confined -- Pt. 4. To the North Pacific -- 17. I allow because I cannot prevent it -- 18. An act that I cannot account for -- 19. They may fear, but never love us -- 20. Squalls and rain and so dark -- 21. A dream that we could not reconcile ourselves to -- Epilogue: Cook's afterlives.
Review: "Captain James Cook was one of the greatest sea explorers of all time. His epic voyages charted the islands of the Pacific, defined the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia and ventured into both Arctic and Antarctic ice. His men suffered near shipwreck, were ravaged by tropical diseases and survived frozen oceans. They did all this not for conquest but, as Nicholas Thomas's book shows, to map the unknown and chart new territory."--BOOK JACKET.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their midst merely marked a further (if disastrous) twist in diverse histories already many centuries old. master) our later preoccupations to let us see what Cook and his associates experienced and what the societies he encountered experienced - from the Beothuks of Newfoundland to the Tongans of the Friendly Islands. history to explore the drama of Cook's expeditions. Central to the story is Cook's curiosity. A brilliant map-maker even before he entered the Pacific, Cook would journey emotionally and intellectually into unknown waters and meet people on beaches who were used to voyaging themselves. Tahitians, Maori and Hawaiians would position this enigmatic visitor on their own maps, in ways he could neither understand nor control. Their meetings would be sometimes rewarding, sometimes dangerous, always strangely rich and unpredictable.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: History's man -- Pt. 1. England's Atlantic -- 1. Cook's maps -- 2. Bank's books -- Pt. 2. To the South Sea -- 3. Punished Henry Stephens Seaman -- 4. As miserable a set of People as are this day upon Earth -- 5. As favourable to our purpose as we could wish -- 6. In order to seize upon the people -- 7. He was laughed at by the Indians -- 8. An alarming and I may say terrible Circumstance -- 9. The Calamitous Situation we are at present in -- 10. My intentions certainly were not criminal -- Pt. 3. Towards the South Pole -- 11. The Inhospitable parts I am going to -- 12. Mingling my tears with hers -- 13. We are the innocent cause of this war -- 14. The varieties of the human species -- 15. The Southern Hemisphere sufficiently explored -- 16. Now I am going to be confined -- Pt. 4. To the North Pacific -- 17. I allow because I cannot prevent it -- 18. An act that I cannot account for -- 19. They may fear, but never love us -- 20. Squalls and rain and so dark -- 21. A dream that we could not reconcile ourselves to -- Epilogue: Cook's afterlives.

"Captain James Cook was one of the greatest sea explorers of all time. His epic voyages charted the islands of the Pacific, defined the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia and ventured into both Arctic and Antarctic ice. His men suffered near shipwreck, were ravaged by tropical diseases and survived frozen oceans. They did all this not for conquest but, as Nicholas Thomas's book shows, to map the unknown and chart new territory."--BOOK JACKET.

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