Description: Longitude And Empire : How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed The World, Hardcover by Richardson, Brian W., ISBN 0774811897, ISBN-13 9780774811897, Brand New, Free shipping in the US British Captain James Cook conducted three voyages of exploration into the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1780, and librarian Richardson (Windward Community College, Hawai'i) says that not only the voyages themselves, but his account of them changed forever how Europeans thought about the world. Using the new ability to determine longitude reliably, he says, Cook demonstrated the existence and non-existence of places; located every place in a single, fixed grid of coordinates; and moved away from the continental coastlines into the vasts of the Pacific Ocean. Though he spent most of his time in places that other Europeans had already visited, he incorporated and reworked them into a single and updated description. Distributed in the US by University of Washington Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Longitude And Empire : How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed The Wor
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Longitude and Empire : How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication Year: 2005
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Adventurers & Explorers, General, Essays & Travelogues, Expeditions & Discoveries
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Subject Area: Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Brian W. Richardson
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
