Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean by Captain David Porter in the United States Frigate Essex in the Years 1812, 1  •  David Porter JOURNAL •  2006 •  PAPER • COMING IN Porter's classic account of a voyage to Brazil, Chile, Peru, Galapagos and the Pacific aboard the U.S. frigate Essex in 1812, 1813 and 1814. (PAC180, $34.95)
Cook, The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook  •  Nicholas Thomas EXPLORATION •  2004 •  PAPER  • 464 PAGES • COMING IN The vivid, richly detailed story of the three great voyages of Cook -- and a superb portrait of the man. Thomas, a British anthropologist, plumbs the huge literature of Cook for anecdote and telling detail. These were the world-changing voyages that introduced whole new peoples and areas of the world to European thinkers and cartographers. Cook charted much of the Southern Hemisphere, including Pacific archipelagos, Australia, New Zealand and the Sub-Antarctic islands. (PAC141, $18.95)
Captain Cook, A Legacy Under Fire  •  Vanessa Collingridge BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2003 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES European discoveries are much in question these days and in this well researched book Collingridge takes on an 18th-century British hero and his discovery of Australia. Nevermind that the English bucanner William Dampier had already landed on Australia well before Cook in 1688, Collingridge looks into the long-forgotten research of a distant cousin that showed that Portuguese explorers mapped Australia in the 16th century. The author, a journalist and British televison news anchor, intercuts elequent chapters on Cook's explorations with the tale of George Collingridge (who she rescues from obscurity) and a nice account of her own travels. Like Cook, the author ends her book on the shores of Kaelakekua bay. (PAC125, $14.95)
Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu & New Caledonia  •  Chris Doughty FIELD GUIDE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES • COMING IN A compact guide to the birds of the Southwest Pacific featuring 91 color plates by Nicholas Day and Andrew Plant. Maps, descriptions and illustrations are integrated on facing pages for easy reference in the field. It covers 362 species in all, including 117 endemic birds and 60 that are illustrated here for the first time. A Christopher Helms Field Guide. (PAC97, $29.95)
The Ocean World  •  Jacques Cousteau NATURAL HISTORY •  1992 •  HARD COVER  • 446 PAGES • COMING IN The classic gorgeously illustrated overview of ocean life by Jacques Cousteau and his team. (OCE40, $34.98)
Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide  •  Peter Harrison FIELD GUIDE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 317 PAGES • COMING IN A field edition of Harrison's definitive seabird identification guide, featuring 740 color photographs. It illustrates all the world's seabirds, many in a variety of plumages. The book also contains a convenient key to identifying the confusing albatrosses, petrels and other tubenoses, as well as range maps and information about habitats and distribution. This is the book that you'd carry on any sea voyage; our ten-year-old edition has been everywhere. (FG16, $29.95)