Project Gutenberg 2004-09-06 Public domain in the USA. 85 Kerr, Robert 1755 1813 A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Reading ease score: 71.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Robert Connal, Paul Ereaut and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. "A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14" by Robert Kerr is a historical collection crafted in the early 19th century. This volume focuses on the significant voyages made in an attempt to explore the Southern Hemisphere, particularly those led by Captain James Cook, detailing the era's maritime endeavors and discoveries during the 18th century. The opening of the book sets the stage for an account of Cook's voyage towards the South Pole, outlining the scientific and exploratory motivations behind the expedition. It describes the extensive planning and preparations made for the voyage, including the equipment of two ships, the Resolution and the Adventure, and the careful selection of crew members tasked with gathering important scientific observations. This introduction emphasizes the historical context of exploration prompted by previous navigators, highlighting both the challenges and the ambitions that fueled such journeys into the largely uncharted southern seas. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Voyages and travels G Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Travel & Geography 1356907 1356770 2024-10-06T07:46:22.750059 2023-10-06T09:01:03.813663 text/html text/html 1353213 2020-12-18T04:52:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 485913 2020-12-18T04:52:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 590059 2024-10-06T07:46:36.885971 application/epub+zip 613554 2024-10-06T07:46:26.908994 application/epub+zip 579242 2024-10-06T07:46:25.451018 application/epub+zip 1108433 2024-10-06T07:46:45.238898 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1076616 2024-10-06T07:46:35.950964 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1029500 2022-09-07T01:53:49.605222 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1350129 1349946 2024-10-06T07:46:21.475112 2023-10-06T09:01:02.719650 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1349041 2020-12-18T04:52:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 484928 2020-12-18T04:52:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1352796 2020-12-18T04:52:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 485045 2020-12-18T04:52:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21087 2024-10-06T07:46:45.367910 application/rdf+xml 25367 2024-10-06T07:46:26.029997 image/jpeg 4880 2024-10-06T07:46:25.740001 image/jpeg 585393 2024-10-06T07:46:22.864032 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia