First circumnavigation of the globe Expedition on the "Endeavor" in 1768-1771.
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First circumnavigation of the globe Expedition on the "Endeavor" in 1768-1771.
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in his relatively short life, English Captain James Cook (1728-1779).
made so many discoveries and exploits that from that time to this day he is rightly regarded
is widely regarded as Britain's most famous navigator. In just ten and a half
and a half years (1768-1779) he circumnavigated the globe three times, discovered hundreds of
hundreds of islands, Hawaii being the jewel among them, and annexed millions of square miles of new territory.
millions of square miles of new territory (Australia alone!).
The natural scientists on his expeditions discovered, studied, described and sketched
hundreds of species of animals and plants unknown to science.
The Aborigines did not eat Cook! Believing him to be an incarnation of the god Lono, after his death.
they gave him the highest posthumous honors, dismembering him and dismembering him
for souvenirs.
There is no more British Empire. Many of the species Cook had discovered.
of fauna and flora. Most of the natives have been wiped out or died out from diseases brought in
diseases introduced by Europeans. The descendants of the survivors became reservation dwellers,
bicycle rickshaws, prostitutes, tour guides, foreign ministers and presidents
presidents of their own independent states.
But Cook's diaries have survived, a meticulous account of how they lived,
worked, entertained, rebelled and pacified all those marines,
midshipmen, ship's doctors, native princes and their merry thieving
subjects. Thanks to the stern, lonely, unsociable captain, they had gained
immortality. Cook's published diaries are a detailed account of the storms and
shipwrecks, of bloody skirmishes and merry feasts with the natives, of the amazing
discoveries of his first voyage around the world (1768-1771).
in his relatively short life, English Captain James Cook (1728-1779).
made so many discoveries and exploits that from that time to this day he is rightly regarded
is widely regarded as Britain's most famous navigator. In just ten and a half
and a half years (1768-1779) he circumnavigated the globe three times, discovered hundreds of
hundreds of islands, Hawaii being the jewel among them, and annexed millions of square miles of new territory.
millions of square miles of new territory (Australia alone!).
The natural scientists on his expeditions discovered, studied, described and sketched
hundreds of species of animals and plants unknown to science.
The Aborigines did not eat Cook! Believing him to be an incarnation of the god Lono, after his death.
they gave him the highest posthumous honors, dismembering him and dismembering him
for souvenirs.
There is no more British Empire. Many of the species Cook had discovered.
of fauna and flora. Most of the natives have been wiped out or died out from diseases brought in
diseases introduced by Europeans. The descendants of the survivors became reservation dwellers,
bicycle rickshaws, prostitutes, tour guides, foreign ministers and presidents
presidents of their own independent states.
But Cook's diaries have survived, a meticulous account of how they lived,
worked, entertained, rebelled and pacified all those marines,
midshipmen, ship's doctors, native princes and their merry thieving
subjects. Thanks to the stern, lonely, unsociable captain, they had gained
immortality. Cook's published diaries are a detailed account of the storms and
shipwrecks, of bloody skirmishes and merry feasts with the natives, of the amazing
discoveries of his first voyage around the world (1768-1771).
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