FIRST VOYAGE:
First Voyage:
BEING THE FULL & AUTHENTIC STORY OF THE GREAT DISCOVERIES MADE BY LT. JAMES COOK, R.N. - COMMANDING H.M. BARK ENDEAVOUR - IN THE GREAT SOUTH SEAS IN THE YEARS 1768 - 1771 by John Gwyther, F.R.G.S.
First published in 1954 by Andrew MelroseLimited.
Condition: A green cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine some very light shelf wear - pages immaculate - VERY GOOD PLUS condition. Dust wrapper some chipping to top and bottom of spine area, some blind tears, unclipped in VERY GOOD MINUS condition.
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Jacket front flap blurb:
"Packed with incident—all told in a most colourful style .. . obviously written by a man who knows the sea."
WALTER OLIVER, M.A.FIRST VOYAGE
John Gwyther , F.R.G.S.The author, who served in the Royal Navy and knows the Pacific well, has written an outstanding book on the first voyage of the redoubtable Captain Cook. The tang of the brine is on every page, the creak of the mast and cordage echoes again and again, we are never far from the sound of wind and tumbling waters.
The reader is carried along on a brisk and exciting stream of narrative, moving from port to port, from island to island, through chapters crowded with vivid and exciting incident. There are masterly descriptions of nature and of native customs, and of the natives' reaction to the first coming of the white men.
The hardships of life at sea in the eighteenth century, the appalling penalties for minor crimes, the ferocious brutality of Naval Officers, the monotony and dangers of bad food, the stolidity and bravery and loyalty of the English seaman-explorer spring into vivid reality.
This is a book to capture the imagination and to fire the reader's enthusiasm.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Principal Sources
Index
List of Illustrations
- A Maori Girl
- Sailors carousing before sailing
- A page from the official copy of the "Journal of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour in a voyage round the world performed in the years 1768-1771 by Lieut. James Cook, Commander"
- Joseph Banks
- Deck scene 1775
- The Endeavour
- The frozen wastes of Christmas Sound, Tierra del Fuego
- A Polynesian maiden
- Tahiti
- Tahiti: an inland view
- Otoo, King of Tahiti
- Maori man and woman
- Maori woman wearing the valued kiwi and Kaka kakahu cloak
- Captain James Cook
- Cape Runaway, from Waihau Bay in the Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand
- A Maori in Cook's time
- Maori dance of welcome
- Cape Maria Van Diemen, North Island, New Zealand
- Cape Reinga—in the far north of New Zealand
- Feeding the Tohunga ( or High Priest)
- Another view of Cape Reinga
- A chart drawn by Cook's own hand
- Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand
- The west coast of New Zealand
- Aborigine
- Aboriginal canoe
- Australian aborigines. "Armed with a weapon resembling a scimitar which," said the Sergeant of the Marines, "shone like a musket"
- The aboriginals' love for turtle ended in an ugly incident - finally forcing the English to keep them at a distance
- The aborigines never once evinced amazement at the sight of the Endeavour
- Cook wrote of the aboriginals' shelters (gunyahs): "Just high enough for a man to sit upright in, but not large enough for him to extend himself in his whole length in any direction"
- A close-up of coral
- The Great Barrier Reef
- Aborigine: note the wooden shield, which, with pathetic ignorance, they tried to ward off musket fire
- The Great Barrier Reef: for every one such rock that could be seen, there were ten submerged waiting to impale the little ship
- A gap in the Great Barrier Reef. It was through such an opening that Cook twice shot the Endeavour—superb seamanship only equalled by its daring
- Aborigines with spears
- Whitsunday Islands in the Great Barrier Reef
- Captain Cook, at Botany Bay in 1770, proclaiming New South Wales a British possession
- In the chains—"Heaving the lead", from a contemporary coloured etching
- Chart of New Zealand, drawn by Molineux
- and 41. The charming women of Tonga
- South Sea Island woman from New Caledonia
- Eleven-year-old Samoan husking a coco-nut with his teeth
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