Author: Robert Kirkwood
Publisher:
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: James Cook
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513274449
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Depicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored and reliable narrative of adventures spanning across the globe. The Journals of James Cook depict three of Captain James Cook’s most glorious expeditions, starting in 1768 and leading to Cook’s tragic death in 1779. Having ventured all over the Pacific, Cook encountered lands not yet charted by the British. Though his discoveries and maps inadvertently led to British colonization, Cook held a deep respect for the native people he encountered. He recorded their practices and wrote of them fondly. Cook even befriended some of the native people he encountered, including a Tahitian man who, after hearing of Cook’s homeland, wanted to visit it as well. Per the man’s request, Cook sailed him to Britain, where the man stayed until he and Cook sailed back to Tahiti three years later. After charting Australia, and the whole coast of New Zealand, Cook was involved in a plot to kidnap a Hawaiian monarch and ransom them in order to recover stolen property. He was killed during this expedition, leaving behind a legacy of a detailed description of the Pacific Ocean and its coasts. James Cook’s expeditions around the world and his detailed and innovative work as a cartographer inspired advancements in scientific, medical, historical and geological fields. His influence has also reached the literary world, inspiring novel series and characters, including the infamous Captain Hook. Exuding ambition, courage, and confidence, The Journals of James Cook provide a privileged peak into the travels and accomplishments of an adventurous, and invaluable man. Packed with wonder but free of imperialistic arrogance, The Journals of James Cook serve as a valuable an intriguing primary source of a time when places in the world were yet to be mapped. Now presented in an easy-to-read font and redesigned with a stunning new cover, James Cook’ The Journals of James Cook is accommodating to contemporary readers, providing a fresh version of the esteemed literary work while preserving its wonders and adventures.

Author:
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ISBN: 1984824244
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author: Mary Chipman Lawrence
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.

Author: Sara Sullivan Ervin
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 080630104X
Category : Laurens County (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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This volume contains lists of soldiers that were enrolled in the American Revolution during the years 1775-1855 from South Carolina.

Author: Eric Charles
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463409516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 71

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"A Captain's Journal is a personal account of events from Balad Air Force Base Hospital in Iraq during a six month period from 2006 - 2007. The stories are told from the personal perspective of Eric Charles, an Anesthesiologist. Eric recounts his patient encounters that range from pleasant to gut-wrenching and from laughable to tear-jerking. The descriptions of the events are occasionally graphic, but strike a realistic chord. Eric also weaves into the narrative many personal and philosophicalohical interactions from the every day events of living in the midst of the Iraq War"--Back cover.

Author: James Cook
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486227669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Selections from Cook's journals of the first voyage (1768-1771) to Tahiti, New Zealand and Eastern Australia; second voyage (1772-1775) to the Antarctic and the Pacific; third voyage (1776-1780) to Hawaii, the north American coast; eye-witness accounts of Cook's death in Hawaii.

Author: Alan D. Gaff
Publisher: Knox Press
ISBN: 1637585055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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November 4, 1791, was a black day in American history. General Arthur St. Clair’s army had been ambushed by Native Americans in what is now western Ohio. In just three hours, St. Clair’s force sustained the greatest loss ever inflicted on the United States Army by Native Americans—a total nearly three times larger than what incurred in the more famous Custer fight of 1876. It was the greatest proportional loss by any American army in the nation’s history. By the time this fighting ended, over six hundred corpses littered an area of about three and one half football fields laid end to end. Still more bodies were strewn along the primitive road used by hundreds of survivors as they ran for their lives with Native Americans in hot pursuit. It was a disaster of cataclysmic proportions for George Washington’s first administration, which had been in office for only two years.

Author: Connecticut Historical Society
Publisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Great interest is now being taken in the history of the War of the Revolution, and of the persons who participated therein. This collection of journals has been printed in order to facilitate the study of that period.

Author: Great Britain House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742

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