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Title: An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq.;
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773, comp. cn Byron, John, 1723-1786. cn Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795 Carteret, Philip, d. 1796 Cook, James, 1728-1779. cn Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820. 2n
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: London, Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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