Captain CookA biography of the English explorer, navigator, and cartographer who discovered Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii. |
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Page 74
... scientists thought that those fjords would prove very rewarding for botanising and geological research , and heavy pressure was brought to bear on Cook to sail up one of them and anchor . This Cook positively refused to do and for very ...
... scientists thought that those fjords would prove very rewarding for botanising and geological research , and heavy pressure was brought to bear on Cook to sail up one of them and anchor . This Cook positively refused to do and for very ...
Page 107
... scientists and artists who had departed en masse with Banks had to be replaced . The scientists were to be led by a distinguished German naturalist , John Reinhold Forster ( he was of Scottish descent , hence the name ) , a cantankerous ...
... scientists and artists who had departed en masse with Banks had to be replaced . The scientists were to be led by a distinguished German naturalist , John Reinhold Forster ( he was of Scottish descent , hence the name ) , a cantankerous ...
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... scientists were privileged to witness a most extraordinary spectacle in a nearby bay where the capital , Papeete , now stands . The Tahitians were preparing for an invasion of the neighbouring island of Moorea , whose chief was in ...
... scientists were privileged to witness a most extraordinary spectacle in a nearby bay where the capital , Papeete , now stands . The Tahitians were preparing for an invasion of the neighbouring island of Moorea , whose chief was in ...
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PROLOGUE | 7 |
The Able Seaman | 13 |
The Vanishing Continent | 28 |
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