The Life of Captain James Cook

by Andrew Kippis

Book Overview

The dissenting minister Andrew Kippis (1725-95) was a Member of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Society. With this work of 1788, he was the first biographer of Captain James Cook (1728-79), although several of Cook's colleagues, including Johann Reinhold Forster in 1778 and David Samwell in 1786, had previously published memoirs of their service with him. Believing that 'his public transactions ... are the grand objects to which the attention...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108044018
• ISBN13: 9781108044011
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 2.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 11.7"