James Cook

On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his challenges - to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. He found the continent - but it was horrifically different from what had been hoped for. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

"Viatges al Pol Sud i al voltant del món" ocupa un lloc molt especial en la cultura occidental i excel leix com a llibre de viatges, en què l'aventura, la recerca i el coneixement conflueixen. A fina

Presentación de Christopher Lloyd

Las aventuras de James CookVolumen que reúne las apasionantes aventuras vividas por el más famoso navegante ingles en el segundo de los tres viajes que realizó. Este astrónomo y geógrafo del ejercito britanico en Canada desvanecio el mito de la existencia de un continente austral. Explorador de Tahiti, Nueva Zelanda, el Antartico y Nueva Caledonia; aventurero impenitente, murio a manos de los indigenas y en su honor se llamo Cook a un grupo de islas de Oceania. James Cook (Marton-in-Cleveland, 1728-Islas Sandwich, 1779) participo en distintas expediciones y se dedico al estudio de la astronomia.

-En julio de 1772, en la que sería su segunda expedición, James Cook zarpa del puerto de Plymouth con el Resolution y el Adventure en busca de la legendaria Terra Australis. En su relato nos detalla su fascinante aventura por el circulo polar antartico, Tahiti, la isla de Pascua, las Marquesas, las Nuevas Hebridas, Nueva Caledonia y Nueva Zelanda. Este libro es el relato de ese periplo: "una historia de viajes, de mares y de territorios, pero tambien de personas y pueblos, de costumbres, animales y plantas. Una historia, en definitiva, fascinante", como dice en su prologo Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron.

"Having received my commission, which was dated the S5th of May, I768, I went on board on the 7th, hoisted the pennant, and took charge of the sliip, which then lay in the basin in Deptford Yard." - this is the beginning of the journal in which the legendary captain and discoverer of Australia and New Zealand described his adventures. The book contains the descriptions of the three voyages of Captain Cook, which resulted in the complete round-the-world expedition. Captain and his team were the first Europeans to meet the indigenous people of Australia and Oceania. Captain Cook took a great interest in the locals style of life and customs. Thus, the book doesnt just present an account of one of the most daring sea expeditions in history but also impressions of the pioneering encounter of seamen with the people of unknown races.

En julio de 1772, en la que sería su segunda expedición, James Cook zarpa del puerto de Plymouth con el Resolution y el Adventure en busca de la legendaria Terra Australis. En su relato nos detalla su fascinante aventura por el circulo polar antartico, Tahiti, la isla de Pascua, las Marquesas, las Nuevas Hebridas, Nueva Caledonia y Nueva Zelanda.Este libro es el relato de ese periplo: ?una historia de viajes, de mares y de territorios, pero tambien de personas y pueblos, de costumbres, animales y plantas. Una historia, en definitiva, fascinante?, como dice en su prologo Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron.