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Carregando... The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacificde James Cook, A. Grenfell Price (Editor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Highly agreeable. This book collects lengthy extracts from Cook's journals, at a time of maritime journeys astonishing in every way to us now. The extracts are well placed in context, preventing the lay reader from having to scrounge through the entire pieces. Understandably, in the 2020s, many readers will approach these journals primarily from a racial context, as I see of some recent reviews here. Certainly this is important, and the complex layers of cultural expectations and understanding weight heavy on Cook's subconscious, as they do all of us, and we can clearly see the ways in which he applies thought and intellect and yet cannot always break free of his inculcated values. Given the consequences of this meeting (even though Cook himself had nothing do with the colonisation of Australia, and indeed was dead long before 1788), it's fair for readers to be engaged with this. However ultimately that's a comparatively minor part of this journal of maritime lore, exploration, and the (often repetitive, by their very nature) travails of taking dozens of men on a ship not much larger than a tennis court to sections of land and ocean which had never been visited by Europeans, where danger was not constant and potential but, in so many ways, fatal. ( ) The three voyages of captain Cook are sparsely detailed from accounts from his journals. Not a great read, but does highlight why Cook was such in important explorer. A lot of wind direction, nautical terms and spelling errors (?). It would have been much easier reading if the editors had taken the liberty of editing spelling when it obviously was needed. El 6 de agosto de 1768 James Cook dejó su casa de Londres para zarpar a bordo del Endeavour, llevando consigo un sobre sellado que solo podría abrir una vez su barco alcanzara la isla de Tahití. Cuando por fin leyó el mensaje que los altos representantes del Almirantazgo le habían entregado, Cook supo que su verdadera misión tenía como destino la Antártida, una tierra desconocida, llena de promesas y tesoros ocultos. Fue entonces cuando ese hombre austero que acababa de cumplir cuarenta años vivió la fascinante sensación de ser el dueño y señor del océano. Su audacia le llevó hacia el sur y su espíritu aventurero le permitió establecer los primeros contactos con las tribus caníbales de los maoríes. La Antártida aún quedaba lejos, e hizo falta otro viaje, que se inició en 1772 a bordo del Resolution, para que Cook y sus hombres llegaran a latitudes extremas que nadie había surcado hasta entonces, pero los bloques de hielo les impidieron seguir, frustrando un sueño que ya era una pesadilla. Hombre de tierra adentro que había elegido el mar como destino, Cook no pudo resignarse al cómodo retiro que el gobierno le había ofrecido, y decidió dar un último paso que resultaría fatal. Ahora su nombre descansa en la leyenda. El autor, tras un estudio exhaustivos de los diarios de Cook y otros documentos de la expediciones, ha elaborado un completo relato que incluye mapas y dibujos elaborados por los navegantes. Aufbruch ins Unbekante. Die Entdeckung der Südsee Kein Seefahrer vor James Cook unternahm so ausgedehnte Reisen, verbrachte so lange Zeiträume ununterbrochen auf See und kehrte mit so umfangreichen Kenntnissen weiter Teile der Erde zurück. Cook war der Navigator, der die weißen Flecken auf der Karte des Pazifischen Ozeans tilgte. Wir lesen heute, über zweihundert Jahre später, seine umfangreichen, sachlich knapp und unprätentiös gehaltenen Logbücher mit Atem raubender Faszination. In der Abfolge einer Fülle bildkräftig geschilderter Eindrücke und Erlebnisse erkennen wir auch die wachsende Erfahrung des Kapitäns in der Führung seiner Schiffe Endeavour, Resolution, Discovery und Adventure und ihrer Mannschaften. In ihrer epochalen Bedeutung, aber auch in ihrer abenteuerlichen Erlebnisfülle können die Reisen James Cooks durchaus in einem Atemzug mit den Fahrten des Columbus genannt werden. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"No man ever did more to alter and correct the map of the Earth," writes Percy Adams in his new Introduction, than James Cook, the Scotland-born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery in the then practically uncharted Pacific. His explorations of the eastern coastline of Australia, leading to its eventual British colonization; his thorough charting of New Zealand, discovery of the Hawaiian Island, and his investigation of both the mythical 'Terra Incognita' in the southern ocean and the equally mythical Northwest Passage, as well as his contributions to cartography and to the cure and prevention of sea disease were all of immense scientific and political significance. Though lacking in formal education, Cook was a man of great intelligence and unbounded curiosity, and his journals reflect a wide-ranging interest in everything from island customs to specific problems of navigation, charting, command, and diplomacy. This reprinting of selections from Cook's journals, edited by A. Grenfell Price, celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of his explorations. It abounds in descriptions of newly discovered plant species, particulars of coastline and land features, details of navigation, and impressions of the various Pacific peoples he encountered. Cook's was a many-faceted genius, able at once to grasp the complexities of mathematics necessary for navigation and mapping and the subtle intricacies of politics and negotiation. He often recorded his keen judgments of both subordinates and native chieftains and priests in a way that displays his own great spirit and humanity. Always solicitous of the health of his crewmen, he took great pains to insure proper diet and conditions of cleanliness, and he carefully described these measures in his journal. His tragic death at the hands of Hawaiian islanders is fully rendered from eyewitness accounts, and the implications of his discoveries to the expansion of scientific knowledge are clearly presented by the editor. Although Cook's journals will prove of inestimable value to historians, anthropologists, and students of the history of science, they can be enjoyed equally as lively narratives of high adventure and discovery. Any sympathetically roving imagination will take unbounded delight in this great classic of exploration by a most "curious and restless son of Earth." Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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