Capt. Cook Manuscript Stolen From Museum
<i> Reuters</i>
ADELAIDE, Australia —
A worldwide alert was issued to booksellers and antique dealers Friday asking them to look out for a bark manuscript of notes on Capt. James Cook’s Pacific voyages, an Australian museum curator said.
The 70-page book, including Cook’s notes on three of his voyages to the Pacific in the 1770s, was stolen from the South Australian Museum in December last year, said the museum’s curator, Philip Jones.
Jones said police investigations have so far been unable to trace the stolen book, valued at $77,000.
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