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Paperback South Sea Argonaut: James Colnett and the Enlargement of the Pacific 1772-1803 Book

ISBN: 1925984443

ISBN13: 9781925984446

South Sea Argonaut: James Colnett and the Enlargement of the Pacific 1772-1803

'Who is Colnett?' So asks Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's Far Side of the World. Who indeed. As an adventurous teenager, James Colnett had sailed with Cook in the Resolution. He later became a pioneer in the Pacific sea otter trade, nearly starting a war with Spain in the process. He attempted to force Japan and Korea to admit British trade, and failing that smuggled pelts into China. He conducted a whaling reconnaissance to the Galapagos...

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