TY - BOOK AU - Thomas,Nicholas TI - Discoveries: the voyages of Captain Cook SN - 0713995572 AV - G420.C65 T562 2003 U1 - 910.92 22 PY - 2003/// CY - London, England, New York, N.Y. PB - Allen Lane KW - Cook, James, KW - Explorers KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Discoveries in geography KW - Voyages around the world KW - History KW - 18th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-446) 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 N2 - "Captain James Cook was one of the greatest sea explorers of all time. His epic voyages charted the islands of the Pacific, defined the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia and ventured into both Arctic and Antarctic ice. His men suffered near shipwreck, were ravaged by tropical diseases and survived frozen oceans. They did all this not for conquest but, as Nicholas Thomas's book shows, to map the unknown and chart new territory."--BOOK JACKET ER -