Captain Cook
Subtitle: master of the seas
By: Frank McLynn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780300114218; 0978300114218
Subjects: History; Voyages around the world; Explorers; Biography; Discovery and exploration
Description: Profiles the famous navigator, addresses the common colonialist misconceptions about the explorer and his death, and re-creates the voyages that took him from his native England to the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [422]-472) and index.
Table of contents: title: A; title: Yorkshire apprenticeship -- -- The; title: Seven Years War --; title: Charting Newfoundland -- -- The; title: challenge of the Pacific --; title: First contacts with Tahiti -- -- The; title: Isle of Cythera --; title: Peril in Australasia --; title: Homeward bound --; title: Antarctica --; title: Tongans and Maoris --; title: Mastering the Pacific --; title: Lost horizon : the great southern continent -- -- The; title: last voyage --; title: Tahiti : the final phase --; title: Quest for illusion : the Northwest Passage --; title: Hawaiian nightmare --; title: Tragedy on Kealakekua Beach ---- Conclusion.