Hunt For The Southern Continent

An excerpt of Cooks Journal, published in the Penguin Great Journeys series.

Written in diary form, and given that this is a long sea voyage, it is pretty repetitive and not the most interesting for the majority of the book.

Dates, compass bearings, sea conditions and weather start each entry. Interactions with the natives provides some interesting asides, but after a short number they too become repetitive: trying to befriend, trading nails for pigs, gifting other small items, attempts to communicate, obtaining drinking water, shooting the odd hostile or over inquisitive native, obtaining fruit, etc.

It would have been naive to have started reading this book expecting much else.
Three stars because it meets expectations for this type of book, but as for recommending it? Probably not unless you are a big fan. As for the full journal, I will certainly skip that over, thanks!