Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - Softcover

Withey, Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520065646 ISBN 13: 9780520065642

Publisher: University of California Press, 1989

Synopsis

Voyages of Discovery is the story of the last great age of European sea exploration, when state-supported expeditions driven by both scientific and political motives set out to map the remaining unknown parts of the globe. Focusing on the voyages of the preeminent explorer, Captain James Cook, who commanded three round-the-world expeditions between 1768 and 1780, Lynne Withey illuminates the Pacific islanders' views of their "discoverers" as well.

About this title

About the Author:

Lynne Withey has taught history at the University of Iowa, Boston University, and the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams.

From Library Journal:

A history of 18th-century British exploration of the Pacific, concentrating on Cook's three voyages (1768-80). Withey covers some of the same ground as John C. Beaglehole's The Exploration of the Pacific (1966. 3d ed.), but emphasizes the interaction between the English explorers and the Pacific islanders, mutually fascinated, but trying to comprehend an exotic society in terms of their own. The differences between the various island groups visited by the English are well delineated by Withey, biographer of Abigail Adams ( Dearest Friend) . The author makes good use of contemporary journals and reports to put together a readable narrative. Jonathan F. Husband, Framingham State Coll. Lib., Mass .
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0520065646
• ISBN 13: 9780520065642
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512