Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, A, Volume 1

By Cook, James

Book Id: WPLBN0002950343
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File Size: 417.06 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, A, Volume 1
Author:	Cook, James
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Biography, Travel
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, A, Volume 1
Historic Publication Date:	1777
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Cook, B. J. (1777). Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, A, Volume 1. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend with those who maintained that the Terra Australians Incognita (the unknown Southern Continent) was a reality. To finally settle the issue, the British Admiralty sent Cook out again into the vast Southern Ocean with two sailing ships totalling only about 800 tons. Listen as Cook, equipped with one of the first chronometers, pushes his small vessel not merely into the Roaring Forties or the Furious Fifties but becomes the first explorer to penetrate the Antarctic Circle, reaching an incredible Latitude 71 degrees South, just failing to discover Antarctica. (Introduction by Shipley)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Biography, Travel, History, Adventure, Sea stories