James Cook - Letters [M722], 1772-1775

M 722

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432436

Microfilm : M 722 (see also contents list at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/116)

microfilm reel 35 mm

Navigator and explorer. Cook circumnavigated New Zealand and charted its coast in 1770 before discovering and charting the east coast of Australia. On his second major voyage between 1772 and 1775 he circumnavigated the world in the Resolution accompanied by the Adventure

Copy of Cook's journal of the second voyage, 9 April 1772 to 29 July 1775, in two folio volumes (416 and 558 pages). The inscription on the title page reads "A Journal of the proceedings of His Majesty's sloop the Resolution in a voyage on Discoveries towards the South Pole and round the World by Captain James Cook 1772, 3, 4, and 5. The manuscript is in the hand of Cook's clerk on the Resolution during the third voyage

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 34, p. 28
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M722
Microfilm copy of originals held National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin
Descriptive list at beginning of reel