Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World made in H.M. bark "Endeavour"
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World made in H.M. bark

Author: James Cook

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13:

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The following is a journal written by James Cook, a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

"Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782?850 Vol 1 "

Author: Christian Goodwillie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1351536222

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The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.

The Invention of the Newspaper
The Invention of the Newspaper

Author: Joad Raymond

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780199282340

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First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, this work describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper. Previous ed.: Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.