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

Lynne Withey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688051154 ISBN 13: 9780688051150

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1987

Synopsis

Examines the three voyages of Captain Cook into the Pacific, discusses the impact of European and Polynesian cultures on each other, and reviews the scientific discoveries of the voyages

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 .
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0688051154
• ISBN 13: 9780688051150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512