The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyage – Edited from the Original Manuscripts: Four Volumes and a Portfolio (Extra Series (Hakluyt Society), No. 34-37.) - Hardcover

Beaglehole, J.c.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0851157440 ISBN 13: 9780851157443

Publisher: Boydell Press, 1968

Synopsis

This classic set of three volumes in four books plus portfolio, edited from the original manuscripts, provides for the first time a complete, reliable and authoritative text of Cook's account of his voyages of discovery. Published over many years, complete sets of previous edition shave been hard to come by. This reissue makes more widely available to historians a vast range of material relating to all aspects of 18th-century scientific advances.
The volumes contain Cook's accounts of his three great voyages in the Endeavour and the Resolution; introductions and detailed notes accompany the texts, and extracts from the journals of Cook's shipmates are printed as appendices. A separate portfolio contains the manuscript charts and views drawn by Cook and his officers, which he regarded as an essential complement to his Journals.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS (All 234 x 156 unless stated)
I. The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771: 21 maps, 26 b/w illustrations, cclxxxiv + 696pp
II. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775: Col. frontis., 20 maps, 62 b/w illustrations, clxx + 1028pp
III. The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780
i. Col. frontis., 16 maps, 65 b/w illustrations, ccxxiv + 720pp;
ii. 2 maps, 11 b/w illustrations, viii + 928pp
Portfolio: Charts and Views Drawn by Cook and his Officers: 68 charts and views, viii + 68pp, 377 x 248

About this title

Review:

A principal source for understanding European exploration of the Pacific in the eighteenth century. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The most important book ever written about Cook. IAN BOREHAM, THE CAPTAIN COOK STUDY UNIT.

From the Publisher:

This classic edition of Cook's journals, taken from the originalmanuscripts, improves on previous editions by incorporating into its rightful place the rare 'Cook and the Russians' pamphlet, and by its use of re-originated maps and artwork, and thus provides for the first time the definitive and complete version of Cook's Journals. A reliable and authoritative text, its republication has been warmly and widely welcomed. The volumes contain Cook's accounts of his three great voyages of discovery in the Endeavour and the Resolution; introductions and detailed notes accompany the texts, providing necessary identifications and references, and giving additional information from other sources supplementing Cook's account. More extended extracts from the journals of Cook's shipmates are printed as appendices. A separate portfolio (included) contains the manuscript charts and views drawn by Cook and his officers, which he regarded as an essential complement to his Journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0851157440
• ISBN 13: 9780851157443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 4136