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Image of James Cook Journal of Proceedings at Endeavour River 11 June - 14 August 1770
Author James Cook
Binding Paperback
Edition Facsimile
Condition As New
Item Status Available and copy In Stock (but currently Out Of Print)
Publisher The Colony Press
Release Date 01 Jan 2010
Price
$50.00
Weight 0.162kg
ISBN 9780949586179

June 1770 Captain Cook's Endeavour was nearing the end of its long northward course along the east coast of Australia when the ship hit a coral reef off northern Queensland,stuck fast, and began to leak.Cook's own account of his hazardous passage through the shoals of the Great Barrier Reef is one of the most dramatic chapters in maritime exploration.