{"product_id":"pacific-exploration-9781472957733","title":"Pacific Exploration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaptain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark\u003ci\u003e Endeavour\u003c\/i\u003e, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas  including New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands  and tested all Cook's skills as a navigator, seaman and leader. His voyages were among the first to take civilian scientists, notably Sir Joseph Banks, and they revealed to European eyes the mysterious and exotic lands, peoples, flora and fauna of the Pacific, never before seen.  But while Cook understandably dominates the story of 18th-century Pacific exploration, the achievements of those who followed him on many voyages of science and exploration into the Pacific have been neglected and deprived of the greater attention they deserve. Correcting this imbalance, \u003ci\u003ePacific Exploration \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the European voyages that continued Cook's work not onl","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867233857879,"sku":"9781472957733","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pacific-exploration-9781472957733","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}