Title: Hunt for the Southern Continent (Great Journeys)
Author: James Cook
Editor: Philip Edwards
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1774?/2007
120 pages
Excerpted from Cook's longer work, this is one in a Penguin classical travelogue series. Cook's spelling is preserved. It's interesting to watch Cook diligently crisscross the South Pacific and Antarctic waters looking for a continent that must be there, but which eludes his efforts to find it. Read with Thompson's Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story for two views of Cook's purpose and effects.
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