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Discoveries : the voyages of Captain Cook / Nicholas Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Penguin, 2004Description: xxxvii, 467 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0141002794
  • 9780141002798
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.92 22
LOC classification:
  • G420.C65 T562 2004
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.
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2003.

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.

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