This work by James Cook comprises his journals detailing voyages of exploration. It is significant for its detailed accounts of newly charted territories and indigenous cultures encountered.
Sources for James Cook — The Journals of Captain Cook
James Cook — The Journals of Captain Cook in Geography and Exploration
Held in the Geography and Exploration chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
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- Ibn Battuta — Travels in Asia and Africa (1355)
- Christopher Columbus — Journal of the First Voyage (1492)
- Antonio Pigafetta — Magellan's Voyage Around the World (1525)
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca — Naufragios (1542)
- Richard Hakluyt — The Principal Navigations (1589)
- Alexander von Humboldt — Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions (1814)
- George Perkins Marsh — Man and Nature (1864)
- Richard Henry Major — The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator (1868)
- Ernest Shackleton — The Heart of the Antarctic (1909)
- Mark Twain — Life on the Mississippi (1883)