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" The explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as told by selections of his own journals, 1768-1779 / "
edited by A. Grenfell Price ; illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton ; with a new introduction by Percy G. Adams.
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BL
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878490
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Works.
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Cook, James,1728-1779.
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The explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as told by selections of his own journals, 1768-1779 /\ edited by A. Grenfell Price ; illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton ; with a new introduction by Percy G. Adams.
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New York,: Dover Publications, [1971]
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xix, 292 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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0486227669
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: 9780486227665
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Includes bibliographical references (page xiii).
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| Abstract
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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 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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Cook, James,1728-1779
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Cook, James,1728-1779.
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Voyages around the world, Early works to 1800.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Voyages around the world.
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Oceania, Discovery and exploration, Early works to 1800.
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Oceanica, Discovery and exploration.
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Oceania.
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| Dewey Classification
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910/.09/164
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G420.C62P7 1971
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Price, A. Grenfell, (Archibald Grenfell),Sir,1892-
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