Last chance to see: James Cook: The Voyages at the British Library
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Marking 250 years since the Endeavour set sail from Plymouth, James Cook: The Voyages (open until 28 August 2018) explores Captain James Cook’s three world-changing voyages through stunning artworks, iconic maps and original journal accounts created on board ship. Bringing together the most important surviving records of all three voyages for the first time in a generation, the British Library exhibition features: • James Cook’s journals and logbooks, including his account of his landing at Botany Bay in Australia and the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle • 80 stunning original artworks by exhibition artists including Sydney Parkinson (first voyage), William Hodges (second voyage) and John Webber (third voyage) • The only surviving drawings by Tupaia, the Polynesian high priest and navigator who joined the first voyage at Tahiti, displayed