Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook's Third Voyage: Views from Captain Cook's Third Voyage : Engravings and Descriptions from A Voyage to the ... I, II, and III, and the Atlas by Captain - Rilegato

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

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ISBN 10: 0945048041 ISBN 13: 9780945048046

Casa editrice: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1999

Riassunto

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.

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• Editore: Univ of Hawaii Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0945048041
• ISBN 13: 9780945048046
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 174
• Redattore: Nordyke Eleanor C.