Ebook: Entdeckungsfahrten im Pazifik: die Logbücher der Reisen 1768-1779

The Exploration of the Pacific No seafarer before James Cook undertook so traveled extensively, so spent long periods continuously at sea and returned with such extensive knowledge further back parts of the earth. Cook was the navigator who repaid the white spots on the map of the Pacific Ocean. We read today, more than two hundred years later, its extensive, factual and unpretentious just kept logbooks with breathless fascination. In the sequence of Abundance vigorously geschilderter impressions and experiences, we also recognize the growing experience of the captain in the leadership of his ships Endeavour, Resolution, Discovery and Adventure and their teams. In its epochal significance, but also in their adventurous experience fullness the James Cook's voyages can be quite on a par with the journeys of Columbus.