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Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. 11 June 1770. Off the coast of New Holland, in the dead of night, the Endeavour strikes a coral reef and grinds to a halt, her hull torn open, leagues from any shore. To survive, the crew casts her guns into the sea and fothers the ship with a sail to plug the breach.This third and final volume of Cook's authentic journal carries the reader from that night of dread to the return to England. The ship is careened for seven weeks on an unknown river, where Cook describes a leaping animal that Aboriginal people call the kangaroo. The Endeavour then threads back through the labyrinth of the Great Barrier Reef, comes within a hair of a second wreck, and escapes at last through the narrow Providential Channel. At Possession Island, Cook takes possession of the entire east coast in the name of New South Wales, then passes through the strait separating New Holland from New Guinea, proof that the two lands are indeed distinct.Then comes the longest of the perils. After a stop at Savu, where Cook bargains for buffalo and provisions, the Endeavour reaches Batavia, a Dutch city of stagnant canals where fever and dysentery take hold aboard ship. The crossing to the Cape of Good Hope turns into a running register of deaths: the ship's surgeon, the astronomer Charles Green, the master Molineux and the faithful Tupaia fade away one after another. Cook makes it home, but he comes home in mourning, and his journal closes with the Postscript, in which he already turns his thoughts to Bougainville's ships and to the discoveries still to come.This volume closes Cook's first great voyage on one of the major demonstrations of eighteenth-century geography: proof that New Holland and New Guinea are two lands separated by a navigable strait. The taking of possession of New South Wales at Possession Island, on 22 August 1770, also lays the foundation for the British claim to the entire east coast of Australia, the starting point of the colonisation that would follow two decades later.The text followed here is Cook's personal journal, written day by day aboard the Endeavour, distinct from the reworked account that editor John Hawkesworth would publish in 1773 for the general public. Here the human cost of the voyage appears without embellishment: of the roughly ninety-four men who left England, more than a third would never see their country again, most of them carried off by the fevers of Batavia rather than by the sea itself, a contrast Cook notes with striking sobriety.The first complete modern rewriting for today's reader, making this account accessible without betraying anything of the voyage. Twenty original illustrations and redrawn maps bring the route to life, while a set of reference materials (glossary, chronology, index, further reading, editor's note, afterword) and selected passages from the original text accompany the reading. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 408.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. February 1777. The Resolution and the Discovery leave New Zealand, bound north. James Cook, at the height of his fame, must reach the Arctic before summer to force the Northwest Passage that Europe has been hunting for two centuries. But easterly winds set relentlessly against him, the season melts away amid endless tacking, and the captain realizes he has already lost his year. He sets a course for the Friendly Islands, determined to build up his strength there before attempting the far north the following summer.Along the way come the first unknown lands: Mangaia and Atiu, where a handful of men very nearly remain prisoners of a crowd's curiosity, then the coral lagoon of Palmerston. There begins one of the strangest stays in the whole history of the great voyages of discovery. For two and a half months, the English are the guests of a sumptuous and closed Polynesia.At Lifuka, a chief named Feenou lays out mountains of yams and pigs, club fights, women boxers as skilled as the men, and a dance of a hundred and five warriors that leaves the crew speechless. He is taken for the king. He is not. Then come Tongatapu and the true sovereign, the huge and placid Poulaho, the kava ceremony governed by secret laws, the empire of taboo, and the forbidden rite of the Natche, where the heir to the throne is recognized. Cook slips in bare-chested among the officiants, understanding nothing of the oath he watches being sworn.Between reefs skimmed by night, endless petty thefts, and a kingship whose rules he never manages to grasp, the captain ends by taking the king and his chiefs hostage to recover what has been stolen from him. This second volume is the account of a man who still believes he observes everything, and whom the Pacific observes in turn: an encounter in which the Europe of the Enlightenment collides with a world order that entirely escapes it.Isabelle Perol here rewrites in today's English Book II of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (London, 1784), the very journal of Cook and his naturalist William Anderson. The text is stripped of its period heaviness but remains faithful to the facts, the measured tone, and the outlook of the sailors themselves. The edition adds an introduction, a complete critical apparatus (glossary, timeline, index, editor's note, afterword), route maps, and original engraved illustrations.The second of six volumes devoted to James Cook's third and final voyage, in the Forgotten Travel Journals collection. Each volume can be read on its own. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. July 1772, Plymouth. Two converted coal ships set sail to prove that a continent does not exist. Learned Europe has drawn it for two centuries at the bottom of its maps: vast, populated, fertile. James Cook, a laborer's son who became the finest navigator in the kingdom, receives orders to sail as close to the pole as the ice will allow, until the question falls silent.The Resolution and the Adventure round the Cape of Good Hope, then plunge into a white world no ship had ever entered. On January 17, 1773, they cross the Antarctic Circle, a first in the history of navigation. That same evening, the field ice closes the horizon from east to west. Cook turns north, loses his companion ship in a storm, and reaches New Zealand alone after one hundred and seventeen days at sea without sighting land, without a single man lost to scurvy.Then comes the opposite of cold: Dusky Bay and its waterfalls, Queen Charlotte's Sound and its severed head, then Tahiti, the reef narrowly cleared, King Otoo, the festivities of Huahine and Raiatea, two young islanders who come aboard for a world they cannot imagine. And, at the very end of this first volume, news that chills the captain more surely than the ice ever could: a ship has passed this way before him, and no one knows under what flag.This second voyage of Cook's is commissioned by the Admiralty and the Royal Society to settle, once and for all, the question of the great southern continent that geographers have placed at the bottom of their maps since antiquity. On board, the astronomer William Wales keeps watch over Kendall's chronometer, while the naturalists Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster describe unknown plants, shores, and peoples. By crossing the Antarctic Circle, Cook sails farther south than any ship before him, and in the same stroke demolishes two thousand years of learned speculation about a populated and fertile Terra Australis.The other victory of this volume is a quiet one: across a full crew, not a single man dies of scurvy, the disease that had until then decimated great voyages. Sauerkraut, malt wort, and strict discipline in the shipboard diet prove their worth here, a turning point for the British navy. The first volume of the trilogy devoted to Cook's second voyage (1772-1775), part of the Forgotten Travel Journals collection, Oceania & Pacific series, this volume follows the outward journey, from Plymouth to the Society Islands; the following volumes will carry the crossing of the South Pacific through to the return to England.This is the first complete modern rewriting for today's reader, one that makes this account readable without betraying anything of the voyage. Twenty original illustrations and ten redrawn maps bring the itinerary to life, while a set of reference materials (glossary, timeline, index, further reading, editor's note, afterword) and selected passages from the original text accompany the reading. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 515.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. September 1773. The Resolution leaves the warm lagoons of the Society Islands and sets a course south, alone, in search of a continent that all of Europe believes lies crouched at the end of the world.At the Friendly Islands, impassive chiefs receive Cook with great ceremony; in New Zealand, a severed head on the deck reveals to him the cannibalism he had refused to believe. Then the ship pushes deeper into the ice: the ice islands close in, the field ice bars the horizon, and on 30 January 1774 the navigator reaches the southernmost point ever attained by a man, 71 degrees 10 minutes south. Beyond it, there is nothing: the great southern continent does not exist.Having sailed back toward the sun, Cook lands among the stone giants of Easter Island, returns to the Marquesas discovered two centuries earlier by Mendana, watches the review of a Tahitian war fleet of more than three hundred canoes led by admiral Towha, bids farewell to King Otoo and to the Society Islands, then pushes on to the New Hebrides, on the threshold of a land still unknown to Europeans.This second volume covers the heart of the voyage: Books II and III of Cook's original account, from September 1773 to July 1774. This is where the voyage's double conquest is decided, the polar record that ruins two thousand years of speculation about a populated southern continent, and the densest encounter with the peoples of the Pacific, from the Friendly Islands to the New Hebrides by way of Easter Island and the Marquesas. Faced with Maori cannibalism, Cook moves from horrified disbelief to direct experience, having a piece of flesh roasted on his quarterdeck to settle the matter once and for all, a gesture that says as much about his century as about what he observes.The second volume of the trilogy devoted to Cook's second voyage (1772-1775), part of the Forgotten Travel Journals collection, Oceania & Pacific series, this book continues the route of the previous volume, from the Society Islands to the New Hebrides; the following volume will close out the crossing of the southern Pacific up to the return to England.The first complete modern rewriting for today's reader, making this account readable without betraying anything of the voyage. Twenty original illustrations and ten redrawn maps bring the route to life, while a set of reference tools (glossary, timeline, index, further reading, editor's note, afterword) and selected passages from the original text accompany the reading. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 518.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. August 1777. The Resolution and the Discovery anchor at last off Tahiti. James Cook brings back Omai, the Raiatean whom London had claimed for two years, laden with suits of armor, globes, and fireworks. No one on the beach pays him any attention. Then someone catches sight of his red feathers, and everything changes.Six weeks follow, among the densest of the whole voyage. Cook attends, over two days, the sacrifice of a man on the great morai of Attahooroo, and counts forty-nine skulls at the foot of the altar. He reviews some sixty war canoes drawn up in Matavai Bay. He watches a people astonished before the first horses ever to set foot on their land. Then, at Moorea, he has houses and canoes burned over two stolen goats, and weighs for himself the price of his own harshness.There follow the settling of Omai in his house at Huahine and the tearful farewell of the Tahitian traveler, the desertions at Raiatea where Cook holds Chief Oreo's children hostage, and the bargain at Bora Bora, where he buys back from old Opoony the anchor Bougainville had lost ten years before. Between anchorages, the surgeon William Anderson composes his long portrait of Tahiti: seasons and gardens, language and remedies, kava, arioi, atua, and kingship, one of the most complete documents the eighteenth century left on Tahitian society.Then comes the course north, and the unknown. On Christmas Eve 1777, a deserted atoll rises out of the ocean: turtles are caught there, a solar eclipse observed, two lost sailors nearly die of thirst. Three weeks later, on the 18th of January 1778, two lands rise on the horizon and men come aboard speaking the language of Tahiti, sixteen hundred leagues away. Cook names them the Sandwich Islands. He does not yet know he will die there. The volume ends with the long run up to the coast of New Albion and the anchorage in Nootka Sound, in March 1778.Isabelle Perol here rewrites in today's English Book III of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (London, 1784), Cook's own journal and the essay of his naturalist William Anderson. The text is stripped of its period heaviness, but faithful to fact, to measurement, and to the seamen's own eye: no summarizing, no abridging, no commentary slipped into the narrative.This edition adds an introduction, a set of reference matter (glossary, chronology, index, editor's note, afterword), selected passages from the original text, route maps, and original illustrations that let the reader see the course followed. Third of the six volumes devoted to James Cook's third and last voyage, in the Forgotten Travel Journals collection. Each volume can be read on its own. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 591.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. March 1778. After a month at Nootka Sound, among the traders of sea otter skins, the Resolution and the Discovery sail up a coast that no European chart yet shows. James Cook is searching for the Northwest Passage, that dreamed-of channel meant to link the two oceans, and he searches for it with the stubbornness of a man on his third voyage around the world.Every bay becomes a promise, every estuary a disappointment. The great river that will bear his name leads only to sandbanks. Prince William Sound hides thieves. In the Aleutians, paddlers hand over notes written in Russian: other Europeans are already there, hidden in the fog for half a century. Then the ships cross the Bering Strait and run, at Icy Cape, into a wall of pack ice as high as a cliff, where thousands of walruses wallow and roar.The Arctic refuses the passage. The surgeon Anderson dies within sight of the island that will bear his name. Defeated by the ice, Cook turns back south toward the Sandwich Islands to spend the winter there, discovers Hawaii and its snow-capped peaks, and at last anchors in a bay where a thousand canoes surround his ships. It is there, on that page, that the journal kept in his own hand stops forever.This fourth volume corresponds to Book IV of the original edition, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (London, 1784): from the arrival at Nootka Sound at the end of March 1778 to the anchorage in Kealakekua Bay on 17 January 1779. It is the last text written in James Cook's own hand; after this page, the account of the voyage is taken up by Captain James King in the volumes that follow. Along the way, the fanciful map drawn by the geographer St?hlin, which promised an easy passage from Asia, is tested against direct observation and found false.Fourth of the six volumes devoted to James Cook's third and last voyage, in the Forgotten Travel Journals collection. Each volume can be read on its own.The first complete modern rewriting for today's reader, making this account accessible without betraying anything of the voyage. Twenty-one original illustrations and redrawn maps bring the route to life, while a set of reference materials (glossary, timeline, index, editor's note, afterword, and further reading) and selected passages from the original text illuminate the reading. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 641.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. August 1774. The Resolution anchors beneath a volcano that glows red in the night: at Tanna, in the New Hebrides, thousands of armed men watch for the stranger who has come from the sea.From there, Cook sails south and discovers a great unknown land, New Caledonia, whose treacherous reefs he charts before judging its people the most honest of any he has met in this sea. The ship then surveys Norfolk Isle, deserted and covered in pines, before making a final call at New Zealand, where a terrible rumor is circulating: an English crew is said to have been killed and eaten. Not knowing what has become of his second ship, the Adventure, Cook sets off south again without certainty.So begins the final dash through the ice. Terra del Fuego, Cape Horn rounded at the height of the southern summer, the discovery of the Isle of Georgia without a single tree or river, then that of Southern Thule lost in the fog: Cook closes the circuit of the southern ocean he had begun two years earlier and settles the question that had haunted Europe for two centuries. The great southern continent does not exist, or at least is nowhere accessible to any ship that might reach it.All that remained was to come home. The call at the Cape of Good Hope finally reveals to Cook the fate of ten men of the Adventure, killed in New Zealand, and the voyage then closes with Saint Helena, Ascension Island, and the Azores. Three years and eighteen days after setting out, the Resolution anchors at Spithead without having lost a single man to scurvy, a feat that will earn Cook the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. This volume also gives voice to Captain Furneaux, who recounts the separation of the two ships and the massacre of the Adventure's boat at Grass Cove, as reported by Lieutenant Burney.The third and final volume of the trilogy devoted to Cook's second voyage (1772-1775), part of the Forgotten Travel Journals collection, Oceania & Pacific series, this volume closes the journey opened by the two previous volumes, from the New Hebrides to the return to England by way of the southern ice.The first complete modern rewriting for today's reader, making this account accessible without betraying anything of the voyage. Twenty original illustrations and ten redrawn maps bring the route to life, while a set of reference materials (glossary, timeline, index, further reading, editor's note, afterword) and selected passages from the original text illuminate the reading. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 622.…

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Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Novembre 1769. Al largo della baia di Mercury, l'Endeavour riprende la rotta verso nord e conclude il giro della Nuova Zelanda iniziato nel primo tomo. Cook battezza un fiume il Tamigi, getta l'ancora nella baia delle Isole, doppia il capo Nord sotto un uragano, poi viene a carenare la nave nello stretto della Regina Carlotta, dove prende possesso del paese in nome del re.Resta da dimostrare ci? che Cook sospetta da settimane: uno stretto separa davvero le due isole. Concluso il giro dell'Isola del Sud, il consiglio degli ufficiali decide ad Admiralty Bay e punta a ovest, verso una terra ancora assente da ogni carta europea. Dopo una lunga traversata del mar di Tasman, una costa sconosciuta si staglia finalmente a Point Hicks: la Nuova Olanda.A Botany Bay il primo contatto si interrompe bruscamente: gli Aborigeni brandiscono le loro zagaglie davanti alle scialuppe inglesi, un marinaio muore e riposa sotto la sabbia. L'Endeavour risale poi verso nord lungo una costa intera ancora priva di nome europeo, seminando battesimi su ogni capo, fino a quella punta che Cook chiama Tribolazione, perch? l?, scrive, cominciarono tutte le sventure.Questo secondo tomo del giornale autentico di Cook conduce il lettore, giorno dopo giorno, dalle baie maori alle scogliere dell'Australia, sul filo di una scoperta in cui ogni capo doppiato apre un pericolo nuovo, fino al momento in cui l'Endeavour si addentra nelle acque strette della Grande Barriera Corallina.Questo tratto del viaggio segna una svolta: ? qui, a Botany Bay e poi lungo diverse centinaia di chilometri di una costa del tutto sconosciuta agli europei, che la spedizione di Cook mette piede per la prima volta sul suolo di quella che diventer? l'Australia. Cook battezza la baia in base al raccolto botanico inedito che il naturalista Joseph Banks e il botanico svedese Daniel Solander vi raccolgono, mentre ogni capo doppiato riceve un nome inglese che figura ancora oggi sulle carte.Il testo qui seguito ? il giornale personale di Cook, redatto giorno dopo giorno a bordo dell'Endeavour, distinto dai racconti rimaneggiati che l'editore John Hawkesworth pubblicher? nel 1773 per il grande pubblico. Vi si ritrova la voce diretta di un marinaio meticoloso, pi? attento ai capi, ai venti e agli uomini che all'effetto letterario, il che ne fa una fonte di prima mano sui primissimi contatti tra europei e popoli aborigeni d'Australia.Prima riscrittura integrale moderna per il lettore di oggi, che rende accessibile questo racconto senza tradire nulla del viaggio. 20 illustrazioni originali e mappe ridisegnate mostrano l'itinerario, mentre un apparato di riferimenti (glossario, cronologia, indice, per approfondire, nota dell'editore, postfazione) e brani scelti del testo originale accompagnano la lettura. Sprache: Italienisch Gewicht in Gramm: 393.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. French language. 6.00x0.64x9.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.