| Item Description: | Captain Cook's journals were prepared from the original manuscripts by J.C. Beaglehole for the Hakluyt Society and were published by them in four volumes in 1955-67. The current selection was published by Penguin Classics as The journals of Captain Cook in 1999 and reprinted as The Journals, with a new further readings in 2003. This edition follows the 2003 edition with minor emendations and some stylistic modernisation"--Title page verso (volume one)."
"The accompanying chart was drawn by Lieutenant Henry Roberts for A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the Command by His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere... by Captains James Cook and James King, 1784. This chart was updated to include new discoveries and was published in 1794"--Title page verso (volume one) |
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