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Author: H. G. Mowat Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1470900793 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 204
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Captain Philip Carteret was born in Jersey, and at the age of 14 years old, joined his first ship, the Salisbury. In July 1766 he took command of the Sloop Swallow. He set off on an exploration with high risks, commissioned by the Admiralty, on a voyage which was to last two years and seven months.
Author: H. G. Mowat Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1470900793 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
Captain Philip Carteret was born in Jersey, and at the age of 14 years old, joined his first ship, the Salisbury. In July 1766 he took command of the Sloop Swallow. He set off on an exploration with high risks, commissioned by the Admiralty, on a voyage which was to last two years and seven months.
Author: Samuel WALLIS Publisher: ISBN: Category : Oceania Languages : en Pages : 100
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Short narrative of the voyage of Captain Samuel Wallis in the Dolphin accompanied by Philip Carteret in the Swallow, who left England in 1766 with Admiralty instructions to search for the Southern Continent, predating Cook's Endeavour voyage by only a few years. The pair discovered Tahiti, Pitcairn Island and other South Pacific islands and took possesion for the British crown.
Author: Helen Wallis Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 131716959X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 213
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Captain Philip Carteret sailed to the South Seas as second in command to Samuel Wallis on a voyage of discovery of the Southern Continent. Separating from Wallis at the exit to the Strait of Magellan he went on to make an independent voyage which has earned him the reputation of being the ablest and most ill-fated of Cook's immediate precursors. Handicapped by a defective ship and inadequate supplies he made a spirited attempt to carry out his instructions. While Wallis was enjoying the delights of Tahiti, Carteret on a more southerly track rediscovered the long lost Spanish discoveries of Santa Cruz and the Solomon Islands, and then became involved in a bitter dispute with the Dutch in Celebes which almost ended in open warfare. This edition presents the first full account of the voyage. It is based on Carteret's own manuscript Journals including one which Carteret wrote with a view to publication to correct the misrepresentation of John Hawkesworth's Voyages (1773). Supplemented by letters and other documents from English and Dutch archives, these manuscripts throw light on various controversial topics, such as the conduct of Wallis and the Admiralty, the Patagonian giants, Carteret's quarrel with the Dutch, and the rights and wrongs in the dispute following the publication of Voyages. Maps drawn on the voyage are reproduced. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 125) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1965.
Author: James Cook Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1607
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"Having received my commission, which was dated the S5th of May, I768, I went on board on the 7th, hoisted the pennant, and took charge of the sliip, which then lay in the basin in Deptford Yard." - this is the beginning of the journal in which the legendary captain and discoverer of Australia and New Zealand described his adventures. The book contains the descriptions of the three voyages of Captain Cook, which resulted in the complete round-the-world expedition. Captain and his team were the first Europeans to meet the indigenous people of Australia and Oceania. Captain Cook took a great interest in the locals' style of life and customs. Thus, the book doesn't just present an account of one of the most daring sea expeditions in history but also impressions of the pioneering encounter of seamen with the people of unknown races.
Author: James Cook Publisher: ISBN: Category : Voyages and travels Languages : en Pages : 422
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These works which detail the experiences of the voyages of Captain James Cook from 1772 until his untimely death in the Hawaiian Islands in early 1779. These volumes were written not by Cook, but by those who accompanied him.
Author: H. G. Mowat
Author: H. G. Mowat
Author: Samuel WALLIS
Author: Helen Wallis
Author: William Fordyce Mavor
Author: Philip Carteret
Author: James Cook
Author: Philip Edwards
Author: William Fordyce Mavor
Author: George Barnett Smith
Author: James Cook