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Fatal Voyage (Paperback)
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Fatal Voyage (Paperback)
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Loot Price R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
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Cook was the greatest explorer of his age and his voyages of
discovery are the stuff of legend. During two long journeys, he
circumnavigated the globe twice, charted the east coast of
Australia, the whole of New Zealand and many islands in the
Pacific. "The Fatal Voyage" is the story of Cook's final journey
when he led his most dangerous and fabled expedition to search for
the elusive Pacific entrance to the North West Passage. He set sail
from England in July 1776 and along the way discovered the Hawaiian
archipelago before mapping and charting the formidable north west
coast of America, from Vancouver Island to the frozen northern
coastline of Alaska. He sailed through the Bering Straits and
although his ships reached the entrance to the North West Passage
they were defeated by a sheer wall of ice blocking their way. Cook
returned to Hawaii to rest, but a series of misjudgments between
his men and the islanders sparked a violent clash in which Cook was
killed at Kealakekua Bay. Peter Aughton has here used letters, log
records and the diaries of those involved in the voyage to tell an
enthralling account of James Cook's last days at sea and reveal the
extraordinary legacy he left behind.
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