James Cook and New Zealand

Government Print NZ, 1969

A thorough and entertaining survey of Cook's three voyages, built on information from Cook's journals and a wide array of other historical sources. The voyages were on the Endeavour from 1768 to 1771, on the Resolution and Adventure from 1772 to 1775, and finally on the Resolution and Discovery from 1776 to 1780, returing to Britain without Cook after he was killed in Hawaii in 1779. Illustrated throughout with photographs of places taken as the authors followed in Cook's footsteps, along with contremporary charts, drawings and botanical paintings from his voyages...