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A voyage to the Pacific Ocean

Newcastle : Printed by M. Brown ..., 1790.; 1098 images, 1076 with full-text search

Document Record

Creator
Cook, James, 1728-1779
Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814. The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay.
Phipps, Constantine John, 1744-1792.
Title
CIHM/ICMH microfiche series ; no. 17753
A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken by command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780.
Published
Newcastle : Printed by M. Brown ..., 1790.
Identifier
FC 02 0203 no. 17753
oocihm.17753
17753
Subject
Northwest Passage.
Northeast Passage.
Voyages around the world.
Nord-Ouest, Passage du.
Nord-Est, Passage du.
Voyages autour du monde.
Oceania -- Description and travel.
Pacific coast (North America).
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
New South Wales -- Discovery and exploration.
Océanie -- Découverte et exploration.
Pacifique, Côte du (Amérique du Nord).
Régions arctiques -- Découverte et exploration.
Nouvelle Galles du Sud -- Découverte et exploration.
Document source
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Library Division, Provincial Archives of British Columbia.
Notes
"Vol. II."
Part of a CIHM set. For individual microfiches in this set see CIHM microfiche nos. 17751-17753.
Volume I has title: Captain Cook's voyages round the world.
"The narrative is written partly in the 1st person, following Cook's journal, and partly in the 3rd person, paraphrased from the official account ..." (Cf. New South Wales. Public Library, Sydney. Mitchell Library. Bibliography of Captain James Cook. Sydney, 1928, p. 10)--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.
Includes Cook's third voyage, Phipps's voyage to the North Pole, and Governor Phillip's voyage to Botany Bay. The account of Phipps's voyage is by an anonymous author and is not to be confused with Commodore Phipps's journal of the same expedition, entitled "A voyage towards the North Pole" (Cf. National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints).
"Directions to the binder, for placing the plates in Cook's Voyages"--Colophon.
12 microfiches (555 fr.) : ill.
796, [2], p., [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection
Monographs
Language
English
URL
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.17753