Captain Cook: Voyager Between Two Worlds

by John Gascoigne

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Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the world of the peoples of the South Pacific, the gulf between the two cultures was not nearly as vast as it was a century later, when ships made of metal and powered by steam were able to expand and enforce European Empires.

In their different ways both the English and the peoples of the Pacific had to battle the seas and its moods...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1847252095

ISBN13:9781847252098

Release Date:June 2008

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Adventurers & Explorers Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Culinary England Europe Expeditions & Discoveries Historical

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