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Primary Sources: Exploration & Discovery: Cook, James

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Online Sources: James Cook

South Seas
Voyaging and Cross Cultural Encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800)

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"South Seas offers the full text of the holograph manuscript of James Cook’s Endeavour Journal held by the National Library of Australia, together with the full texts of the journals kept by Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson on the voyage. You will also find the text of all three volumes of John Hawkesworth’s Account of the Voyages undertaken...in the Southern Hemisphere...(1773). Volumes two and three of this work are an account of the Endeavour voyage fashioned by Hawkesworth from Cook's and Banks's journals."

Book Sources: James Cook

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A Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in quest of a North-west passage, between Asia & America by John Ledyard
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery by John Rickman
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The log-books of Lieutenant James Cook by James Cook
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World. by James Cook
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

Vols. 1-7
Voyages round the world by James Cook
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

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