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Captain James Cook?s first voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the fashionable 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 prepare dinner sailed in 1776, was once directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Its goal used to be the invention of ?a Northern Passage via sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean? - the North-west Passage, sought because the sixteenth century, which might have remodeled the development of worldwide alternate. the quest used to be to take prepare dinner into excessive latitudes the place, as within the Antarctic, his ability in ice navigation used to be validated. 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 impressive voyage which he made northward alongside the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and during Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° approximately disproved the life of a navigable passage in the direction of the Atlantic and produced charts of extraordinary accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, cook dinner met his loss of life in a conflict with the natives as tragic because it turns out pointless. Dr Beaglehole discusses, with sympathy and perception, the tensions which led cook dinner, via then a drained guy, into miscalculations alien to his personal nature and conduct. the quantity and energy of the files, either textual and picture, 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 revealed in complete for the 1st time. The documentation is done, as within the prior volumes, by means of appendixes of files and correspondence and via reproductions of unique drawings and work in most cases by way of John Webber, the artist of the day trip. In Dr Beaglehole?s phrases, ?no one could examine attentively the documents of Cook?s 3rd, and final, v