Captain Cook in the Pacific / Nigel Rigby and Pieter van der Merwe ; with an introduction by Glyn Williams
- Bib ID:
- 2199220
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rigby, Nigel
- Description:
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- Greenwich [England] : National Maritime Museum, 2002
- 138, [6] p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), plans, ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0948065435
- Full contents:
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- 1. Captain Cook and the voyage of Endeavour
- 2. Ships in company : the second and third voyages
- 3. 'Not at all a particular ship': adapting vessels for Pacific exploration
- 4. 'Experimental gentlemen': science and empire in the Pacific
- 5. Art and artists on Cook's voyages
- 6. A 'love of human kind': Captain Cook and Pacific peoples
- Sources and further reading
- Voyage chronologies ...
- Notes:
- ""Captain Cook in the Pacific" appears in the wake of 'Oceans of Discovery', a new gallery at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, which features Cook in a perspective of scientific exploration at sea ..."--Verso of title-page.
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- Publication date:
- 2002
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