Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook

by Nicholas Thomas and Thomas Nicholas

Book Overview

Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their midst merely marked a further (if disastrous) twist in diverse histories already many centuries old. master) our later preoccupations to let us see what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713995572
• ISBN13: 9780713995572
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Length: 467 Pages