THE ATHENAEUMCaptain Cook’s Journal During His First Voyage Round the WorldJames Cook
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Captain Cook’s Journal During His First Voyage Round the World
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textJames Cook’s own journal of the voyage of the Endeavour from 1768 to 1771, printed from the manuscript and edited by W. J. L. Wharton in 1893. On it Cook charted the coasts of New Zealand and sailed up the east coast of Australia, landing at Botany Bay in April 1770. The entries are plain, exact and seamanlike, and now and then astonished.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 15 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- The Antipodes, through the Earth from the Grand Hall
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #8106. In the public domain in the United States.