MARITIME Exploration –

Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney’s experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1773. This book features facsimile pages extracted from the private journal and is beautifully illustrated with maps, portraits, contemporary documents and artefacts, including information text boxes on people and issues. It follows the successful format of other books such as In Bligh’s Hand: Surviving the Mutiny on the Bounty.

• v, 256 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm #230224 First Edition
• Burney, James, 1750-1821 — Travel — Pacific Area
• Cook, James, 1728-1779 — Travel — Pacific Area
• Burney, James, 1750-1821 — Diaries
• Cook, James, 1728-1779 — Travel
• Adventure (Ship : Captain = Tobias Furneaux)
• Explorers — Great Britain — Early works to 1800
• Voyages around the world — Early works to 1800
• Islands of the Pacific — Discovery and exploration
• Australia — Discovery and exploration
• New Zealand — Discovery and exploration
• Pacific Area — Discovery and exploration
• Australian