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Endeavour Lines, The Newsletter of the Captain Cook Study Unit — Australia, Number 35, October 2000 | |
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This classic edition of Cooks journals, taken from the original manuscripts and providing a reliable and authoritative text, has been unavailable for some years, and its reissue will be warmly and widely welcomed. The volumes contain Cook’s accounts of his three great voyages of discovery in the Endeavour, the Resolution and the Discovery. | ||
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Jane Samson: International Journal of Maritime History Volume XIII, Number 1 (June 2001) | |
| Beaglehole’s volumes were extensively reviewed at the time of their original publication, and the Boydell Press reprints are duplicates in every respect. Rather than write a conventional review, therefore, it might be more profitable to reflect on Beaglehole’s place in the changing world of Cook scholarship. The general preface to the original series, written in 1954 by the President of the Hakluyt Society, mentioned ‘the piety which a New Zealander owes to the virtual discoverer of his islands’, and Beaglehole himself wrote that ‘Cook’s competence changed the face of the world.’ There is no doubt that Beaglehole saw Cook as an heroic figure | ||
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