Captain Cook: Voyager Between Two Worlds
"Many biographies have been written about Capt. James Cook ... but Gascoigne takes a different approach in his insightful telling of Cook's story ... His perceptive analysis gives a new depth of understanding about the actual interactions between these cultures. With an extensive bibliography and endnotes; highly recommended for history and anthropological collections in academic and large public libraries." -Library Journal"Gascoigne provides vivid examples of how the process of cultural conflict and accommodation worked in the Pacific in the mid-to late eighteenth century." -Journal of British Studies<!—[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]—><!—[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]—><style>!— /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-parent:"";margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-fareast-}@page Section1{size:8.5in 11.0in;mso-header-mso-footer-mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1{page:Section1;}—></style><!—[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-ansi-language:#0400;mso-fareast-language:#0400;mso-bidi-language:#0400;}</style><![endif]—><span>"A wide-ranging account of the 18th-century navigator whomapped the St. Lawrence and, to a great extent, opened the South Pacific, andof the people he 'discovered' there" —<span style="font-style: italic;">Globe and Mail</span></span><br  /><br  />