Hunt for the Southern Continent (Penguin Great Journeys) - Softcover

Cook, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141025433 ISBN 13: 9780141025438

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his challenges - to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. He found the continent - but it was horrifically different from what had been hoped for.

Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

About this title

About the Author:

James Cook (1728-1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, accurately charting many areas and recording several islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141025433
• ISBN 13: 9780141025438
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 128