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Original Title:	The Journals of Captain James Cook
ISBN:	0140436472 (ISBN13: 9780140436471)
Edition Language:	English

The Journals

James Cook

Paperback | Pages: 672 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 725 Users | 33 Reviews

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Title	:	The Journals
Author	:	James Cook
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Abridged
Pages	:	Pages: 672 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published March 22nd 1906)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Travel. Biography. Adventure. Classics

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"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 of the Hawaiian Island, and his investigation of both the mythical 'Terra Incognita' in the southern ocean and the equally mythical Northwest Passage, as well as his contributions to cartography and to the cure and prevention of sea disease were all of immense scientific and political significance. Though lacking in formal education, Cook was a man of great intelligence and unbounded curiosity, and his journals reflect a wide-ranging interest in everything from island customs to specific problems of navigation, charting, command, and diplomacy.
This reprinting of selections from Cook's journals, edited by A. Grenfell Price, celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of his explorations. It abounds in descriptions of newly discovered plant species, particulars of coastline and land features, details of navigation, and impressions of the various Pacific peoples he encountered. Cook's was a many-faceted genius, able at once to grasp the complexities of mathematics necessary for navigation and mapping and the subtle intricacies of politics and negotiation. He often recorded his keen judgments of both subordinates and native chieftains and priests in a way that displays his own great spirit and humanity. Always solicitous of the health of his crewmen, he took great pains to insure proper diet and conditions of cleanliness, and he carefully described these measures in his journal. His tragic death at the hands of Hawaiian islanders is fully rendered from eyewitness accounts, and the implications of his discoveries to the expansion of scientific knowledge are clearly presented by the editor.
Although Cook's journals will prove of inestimable value to historians, anthropologists, and students of the history of science, they can be enjoyed equally as lively narratives of high adventure and discovery. Any sympathetically roving imagination will take unbounded delight in this great classic of exploration by a most "curious and restless son of Earth."

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Ratings: 3.9 From 725 Users | 33 Reviews

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The most interesting thing about the journals of Captain Cook is the fine and sensitive human being they reveal him to be. He reflects, "From what I have said of the natives of New-Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous but the necessary Conveniences so much sought after in Europe, they are happy in not knowing the use of them. They live in a

This book encompasses the three journeys of James Cook. It is hard to believe that he traveled so far back in the late 1600's and early 1700's. The first journey was done by telling longitude from the stars; the last two he had a chronometer on board. He discovered many new islands in the Pacific, went all around the northern and southern islands of New Zealand, went as far south as he could to Antarctica, up to the Arctic Sea, around the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, and on and on. He

Not bad. Not Cook's actual journals but an edited paraphrased version.

The most interesting thing about the journals of Captain Cook is the fine and sensitive human being they reveal him to be. He reflects, "From what I have said of the natives of New-Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous but the necessary Conveniences so much sought after in Europe, they are happy in not knowing the use of them. They live in a

The comments by the author keep you focused on whats happening while the actual words from the journals of Cook make you feel like you are standing next to him during his trips. Get a good map of the trip by searching the internet, it will help you focus on the scope of his journeys which is awesome.

Informative but about as gripping as Undaunted Courage and in the same vein

I like sailing. I'm fascinated with explorers. I relish accounts of two entirely different cultures meeting. For these reasons The Voyages of Captain Cook seemed to me as if it would be the absolute paramount of my insatiable reading desires. For the first time in my life I was wrong (wait, maybe it was the second, if I'm wrong on this count it will be he third). The Voyages of Captain Cook was what I would like to call, in the old fashioned sense: boring. By the time I was halfway through,