The Voyages of Captain Cook

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Cook's three voyages of discovery, which tookplace between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkableachievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areasof the globe with astonishing accuracy, and the voyages also made asignificant contribution towards solving some of the great problemsof cartography and navigation. With crews containing gifted sailorsand navigators, as well as botanists, painters and scientists, Cookprovides the link between the speculative, profit-hungry voyages ofthe Elizabethan seafarers and the scientific expeditions of thenineteenth and twentieth centuries.