A Voyage Round the World, 2 Vols.

by Georg Forster

George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge uncovered by Cook's second journey of exploration in the Pacific (1772-1775). Accompanying his father, the ship's naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, on the voyage, George proved a knowledgeable and adept observer. The lively, elegant prose and critical detail of his account, based loosely on his father's journal, make it one of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824820916
• ISBN13: 9780824820916
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 910 Pages
• Weight: 5.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 8.6" x 9.6"