Voyages Of Captain Cook (wordsworth Classics Of World Literature)

ISBN: 9781840221008
Author: James Cook
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Originally published by Academy Chicago in 1993, this book, told mostly from Cook's journals, describes the adventure of sailing into the unknown, of scientific experiment to fix a method of establishing longitude and of the botanical curiosities that were collected by Joseph Banks. In the WORDSWORTH CLASSICS OF WORLD LITERATURE series.

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