Captain Cook: Voyager Between Two Worlds

by John Gascoigne

Book Overview

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"