Captain James Cook : The Journals 1768–1779 (3v.). Selected, edited and introduced by Philip Edwards. 24 pages of colour and black & white plates per volume. 11 mono integrated maps in total. Decorative title pages. Fold-out map inserted in a case bound in title blocked light green cloth. Bound in light green cloth printed and blocked with a colour design by Tomislav Tomic. Title blocked blue/green slipcase. 736 pages in total. 9½x6¼in.

"No man ever did more to alter and correct the map of the Earth," writes Percy Adams in his new Introduction, than James Cook, the Scotland-born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery in the then practically uncharted Pacific. His explorations of the eastern coastline of Australia, leading to its eventual British colonization; his thorough charting of New Zealand, discovery of the Hawaiian Island, and his investigation of both the mythical 'Terra Incognita' in the southern ocean and the equally mythical Northwest Passage, as well as his contributions to cartography and to the cure and prevention of sea disease were all of immense scientific and political significance. Though lacking in formal education, Cook was a man of great intelligence and unbounded curiosity, and his journals reflect a wide-ranging interest in everything from island customs to specific problems of navigation, charting, command, and diplomacy.

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