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Captain James Cook?s first voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the trendy map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door at the discovery of Antarctica. those expeditions have been the topic of Volumes I and II of Dr J.C. Beaglehole?s version of Cook?s Journals. The 3rd voyage, on which cook dinner sailed in 1776, used to be directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Its target used to be the invention of ?a Northern Passage by means of sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean? - the North-west Passage, sought because the sixteenth century, which might have reworked the trend of global alternate. the hunt used to be to take prepare dinner into excessive latitudes the place, as within the Antarctic, his ability in ice navigation used to be proven. crusing north from Tahiti in 1778, cook dinner made the 1st recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in forty four° N. The amazing voyage which he made northward alongside the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and during Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° approximately disproved the lifestyles of a navigable passage in the direction of the Atlantic and produced charts of remarkable accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, cook dinner met his dying in a conflict with the natives as tragic because it turns out pointless. Dr Beaglehole discusses, with sympathy and perception, the tensions which led prepare dinner, through then a drained guy, into miscalculations alien to his personal nature and conduct. the quantity and energy of the files, either textual and image, for this voyage surpass these even for Cook?s moment voyage. The surgeons William Anderson and David Samwell, either admirable observers, left journals that are additionally right here published in complete for the 1st time. The documentation is done, as within the past volumes, via appendixes of files and correspondence and via reproductions of unique drawings and work customarily via John Webber, the artist of the day trip. In Dr Beaglehole?s phrases, ?no you could examine attentively the documents of Cook?s 3rd, and final, v