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"Captain Cook's enduring claim to fame is that in three extraordinary voyages to the Pacific he redrew the map of the world. The news that reached London in 1780 of his death on a beach in Hawai'i the previous year was shocking, and the details of that bloody and chaotic fracas had to be turned into something nobler as befitted a martyr-hero." "This new interpretation of Cook's life and death argues that the circumstances and reporting of his death...
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"This new encyclopedia of the life of the great Pacific explorer Captain Cook is both a meticulous piece of scholarship and an attractive and accessible reference book for the general reader. The author, with the help of some twenty distinguished scholars and writers, sets out to answer any and all questions about Cook. The essay length of each entry gives a proper context to the people, voyages, events, places, and ships important in his life, and...
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"Captain Cook's World is an atlas, chronology and biography of the life and voyages of this celebrated explorer. A set of 128 specially drawn maps and accompanying text give an overview of Cook's life, including his early years in England, his time in the North Sea coal trade and with the Royal Navy in Canada, and his three great voyages around the world in HMB Endeavour and HMS Resolution." "Included on the maps are locations visited, named or surveyed...
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"Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to orient Captain James Cook's career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accomplishments of the Australasian first voyage but focuses on the second- and third-voyage discovery missions...
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Captain Cook is the greatest explorer-seaman of all time, yet the world has had to wait almost two centuries for the first full-scale biography to do justice to the man and his achievements. Professor J.C. Beaglehole, the leading authority on Pacific exploration, devoted himself for many years to the editing of Cook's copious Journals, a monument of scholarship in four massive volumes, and the Journal of Josepph Banks who accompanied Cook in the Endeavor....
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In 1415, the Portuguese launch a great era of explorations that will lead to the European discovery of the world. In the Age of Enlightenment, the competition is intense between France and the United Kingdom for the possession of North America and the West Indies, for the Indian colonies, but also for Science. The two powers want to further knowledge in all fields, and discover all the still unknown lands. To this end, they have to face the immensity...
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James Cook, born in 1728, rose from the lowest ranks of the merchant marine, then through the Royal Navy, to become one of the most celebrated men of his time, the last and the greatest of the romantic navigator/explorers. His voyages to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific, the Arctic and the Antarctic, brought a new understanding of the world's geography and of the peoples, flora, and fauna of the lands...
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