Download or read book The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779 written by James Cook and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from Cook's journals of the first voyage (1768-1771) to Tahiti, New Zealand and Eastern Australia; second voyage (1772-1775) to the Antarctic and the Pacific; third voyage (1776-1780) to Hawaii, the north American coast; eye-witness accounts of Cook's death in Hawaii.