Pacific images : views from Captain Cook's third voyage : engravings and descriptions from A voyage to the Pacific Ocean, volumes I, II, and III, and the Atlas by Captain James Cook and Captain James King, published as the official edition of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in London, 1784

Author(s)

• Nordyke, Eleanor C.
• Mattison, James A.
• Cook, James
• Hawaiian Historical Society

Bibliographic Information

Pacific images : views from Captain Cook's third voyage : engravings and descriptions from A voyage to the Pacific Ocean, volumes I, II, and III, and the Atlas by Captain James Cook and Captain James King, published as the official edition of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in London, 1784

Eleanor C. Nordyke, in collaboration with James A. Mattison, Jr.

Hawaiian Historical Society, 1999

Note

Color map on front lining papers

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Pacific Images combines pictorial and selected textual descriptions from Cook's third voyage to give the contemporary reader a fresh perspective on the remarkable findings of some of Cook's voyagers, who were among the first Europeans to open this region to the Western world.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA49362451
• ISBN:
  • 0945048041
• LCCN: 00268416
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Honolulu]
• Pages/Volumes: xxvi, 174 p.
• Size: 28 × 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : G420.C69
  • DC21 : 910.4/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century -- Pictorial works
  • LCSH : Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works
  • LCSH : Hawaii -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works
  • LCSH : Cook, James, 1728-1779. Voyage to the Pacific Ocean