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Cargando... Hunt for the Southern Continent (Great Journeys)por James Cook
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I think I am right in saying that the journals of Captain James Cook,from which this abridgment is taken,ran into four thick volumes. Given that this slim 216 page book of necessity leaves so much out,it still makes for a very interesting read,and would certainly make one search out the larger and more detailed work.It covers the voyages which he made into the Antarctic and also to Easter Island ,Tonga and Tahiti. Because you are reading Cook's actual Journal,the whole experience becomes that much more exciting,because believe me,that man could write really well. On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his challenges - to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. He found the continent - but it was horrifically different from what had been hoped for. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his challenges - to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. He found the continent - but it was horrifically different from what had been hoped for. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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There are trips ashore for food ("yams and Shaddocks, which they exchanged for Small Nails and old rags"), while scientist Mr Forster is regularly "out botanizing".
The account is perhaps enhanced by the Captain's delightful English : "we saw some Pie bald porpuses" ( )