Carteret's Voyage Round the World, 1766-1769

Captain Philip Carteret sailed to the South Seas as second in command to Samuel Wallis on a voyage of discovery of the Southern Continent. Separating from Wallis at the exit to the Strait of Magellan he went on to make an independent voyage which has earned him the reputation of being the ablest and most ill-fated of Cook''s immediate precursors. Handicapped by a defective ship and inadequate supp...