A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
Format: Kindle Book
Publication Date: March 23, 2010
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Whether the unexplored part of the Southern Hemisphere be only an immense mass of water, or contain another continent, as speculative geography seemed to suggest, was a question which had long engaged the attention, not only of learned men, but of most of the maritime powers of Europe.
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This is Captain Cook's journal of his expedition beginning in 1772 to discover if there is a continent at the south pole. I did lots of skimming because he just doesn't have much to say on an average day at sea- latitude and longitude, wind direction, ice islands (evidently the word "iceberg" hadn't been invented yet) and whether he saw any penguins, whales or birds. Things are much more interesting when he gets on land at New Zealand and many islands in the South Pacific, even Easter Island with ... Read More
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