A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship the Endeavour : faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. in his Expedition with Dr. Solander round the World; and embellished with twenty-nine views and designs, engraved by Capital Artists. To which is now added, remarks on the preface, by the late John Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S. &c. And an appendix, Containing an Account of the Voyages of Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, Monsieur Bougainville, Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Endeavour (Ship).

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],xxiii,[1],22,212,[2],lxxi,[2],214-353,[1]p.,plates ) ports.,maps ;

Other Title:

Journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship the Endeavour

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry; and James Phillips, in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]

Notes:

Journal of a voyage under the command of Captain James Cook.

Edited by J. C. Lettsom.

Includes vocabularies of the languages of Otaheite, New Zealand, New Holland, Savos and Sumatra, etc.

An abridgement of Cook's narratives of his second and third voyages is given in the appendix.

With an errata leaf following p.212.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Smith, J. Friends' books, 2.260

English Short Title Catalog, T110808.

OCLC:

642277588