Captain James Cook

by RichardHough (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $4.55

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.68

  This biography of the navigator and explorer, Captain James Cook, covers his life leading to the three voyages which made the Pacific Ocean geographically coherent. Cook charted the North and South Islands of New Zealand and was the first to chart the entire coast of Australia. The book looks at all the territories which Cook discovered. Other books by Richard Hough include The Murder of Captain Cook , Battle of Britain: The Jubilee History , Bless Our Ship , Other Days Around Me and Edward and Alexandra .

• New

  paperback
  

  $16.44

  In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its people's. He was the linking figure between the grey specualtion of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the nineteenth century. Richard Hough's biograpahy is full of new insights and interpretations of one of the world's greatest mariners.