The first circumnavigation of the world Expedition on the "Endeavour" in 1768-1771.

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relatively short life English captain James Cook (1728-1779)
made so many discoveries and feats that from that time to this day
rightfully considered the most famous British navigator. In just ten
half years (1768-1779) he circumnavigated the globe three times, discovered hundreds
islands, and the pearl among them - Hawaii, annexed to the British Empire
millions of square miles of new territories (what Australia alone is worth!).
Scientists-naturalists of his expeditions discovered, studied, described and sketched
hundreds of previously unknown species of animals and plants.
Aborigines did not eat Cook! Considering him the incarnation of the god Lono, they, after death,
navigator gave him the highest posthumous honors: they dismembered and dismantled
for souvenirs.
The British Empire no longer exists. Many of the species discovered by Cook scientists have been destroyed
fauna and flora. Most of the natives were knocked out or died out from the brought
diseases by Europeans. The descendants of the survivors became the inhabitants of the reservations,
cycle rickshaws, prostitutes, tour guides, foreign ministers and
presidents of their independent states.
But Cook's diaries have survived - a scrupulous account of how they lived,
worked, played, rebelled and pacified all these marines,
midshipmen, ship doctors, native princelings and their merry thieving
subjects. Thanks to the harsh, lonely, unsociable captain, they found
immortality. Cook's published diaries are a detailed account of storms and
shipwrecks, bloody skirmishes and merry feasts with natives, amazing
discoveries of the first circumnavigation of the world (1768-1771).

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Publication language: Russian

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