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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."

After the Bounty by James Morrison
Call Number: DU21 .M73 2010
ISBN: 1597973718
A Sailor's Account of the Mutiny and life in the South Seas
Edited and annotated by Donald A. Maxton.
A Voyage to the South Seas... by John Bulkeley and John Cummins
Call Number: F3146.B934 V9
in His Majesty's ship the Wager in the years 1740-1741
by John Bulkeley and John Cummins, gunner and carpenter of the Wager; with an introduction by Authur D. Howden Smith.
Address on the subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific ocean and South seas by Jeremiah N. Reynolds
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
With Correspondence & Documents
The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775 by Johann Reinhold Forster
Call Number: G 161 .H156 2d ser. no.152-155
ISBN: 0904180107
Edited by Michael E. Hoare
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 152-155.

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