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Captain James Cook's three voyages of exploration to the Pacific, 1768-1780, were the first of the great European voyages of discovery to carry professional artists. Cook and his famous colleague on the first voyage, Sir Joseph Banks, on many occasions insisted that a drawing would often provide a better idea of the matter under discussion than mere words would.Joppien, Rudiger is the author of 'Art of Captain Cook's Voyages The Voyage of the Resolution and the Discovery 1776-1780' with ISBN 9780300041057 and ISBN 0300041055.
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