Mrs Cook
Subtitle: the real and imagined life of the captain's wife
By: Marele Day.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Cook, Elizabeth, 1741-1835 -- Fiction.; Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Marriage -- Fiction.; Discoveries in geography -- Fiction.; Ship captains' spouses -- Fiction.; Explorers' spouses -- Fiction.; Married women -- Fiction.; London (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: While her husband circumnavigated the globe, travelling further than any man had before, in her heart Elizabeth Cook travelled with him, imagining the exotic, the sensory, the strange. Shaped by historical fact, this novel evokes the love and interior worlds of the Cooks.