BC Historical Books

BC Historical Books

BC Historical Books

Dernier voyage du capitaine Cook autour du monde, ou se trouvent les circonstances de sa mort, publie en allemand et traduit avec un abrege de la vie de ce navigateur celebre, et des notes Zimmermann, Heinrich, of Wiesloch, active 18th century

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"The biography is abridged from Lichtenberg's and Georg Forster's which was first published in Gottingisches Magazin der Wissenschaften und Litteratur, 1780, ref. Du Rietz. Bibliotheca Polynesiana, no. 736; also Holmes. Dedication signed "Roland". Notes: pp. I 73-200. Reprinted in 1783 with type reset." -- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 333.

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