Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook's Third Voyage

James Cook; James A. Mattison; Hawaiian Historical Society

ISBN 10: 0945048041 / ISBN 13: 9780945048046

Editore: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1999

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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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Titolo: Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook's ...
Casa editrice: Univ of Hawaii Pr
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket