Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook's Third Voyage - Hardcover

Cook, James; Mattison, James A.; Hawaiian Historical Society

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0945048041 ISBN 13: 9780945048046

Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Pacific Images, in this, its second edition, presents the earliest illustrations and descriptions of Pacific peoples and cultures as they were observed and recorded on Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776-1780) with HMS Resolution and Discovery. Reproduced are all sixty-one engraved plates from artist John Webber's drawings, plus three maps published in the rare folio Atlas that accompanies the British governments's official journal, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784). The engraving of Cook's death, added to the 1785 reprint of the Atlas, is also inserted. Text describing each illustration is derived from the meticulous notebooks and detailed journals kept by Cook and his officers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0945048041
• ISBN 13: 9780945048046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Nordyke Eleanor C.