Captain James Cook: South Pacific, 1768

Location:Pacific
Subject:History; explorers; Cook
Length:49 minutes
Format:16mm
Hue:Color
Year Released:1977
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Director:
Producer:Time-Life
Distributor:Ambrose Productions
Library Code:HSL
Description:This film, with special commentary by Anthony Quinn, recreates Cook's voyage of discovery. The mission of the Endeavor was to transport a group of botanists, naturalists, astronomers, and artists to the South Pacific where a transit of the planet Venus could be observed, and to seek out a great land thought to lie south of Australia.
Record No:269
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