Captain Cook Was Here

by Maria Nugent

This book is a dramatic and lively account of the encounters between Captain Cook, his crew and the Indigenous people of Australia during the Endeavour's first landing at Botany Bay, on Australia's east coast in 1770. These encounters were marked by poise, fragility, humanity, intrigue, fear, confusion and regret. The book brings together for the first time all the known surviving objects collected, and all the visual material produced, during Cook's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521762405
• ISBN13: 9780521762403
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"