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Captain James Cook (Paperback)
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Captain James Cook (Paperback)
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List price R452
Loot Price R369
Discovery Miles 3 690
You Save R83 (18%)
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There have been other great accounts of the great man - notably the
classic Beaglehole biography - but this for my money is the most
exhilaratingly readable. I defy anybody, of any age, to resist the
story of the boy from Whitby who changed the history of
exploration, science and seamanship in his cramped little ship
Endeavour and whose voyages added to our knowledge of geography,
plants and animals. And Hough, a leading naval historian, tells the
story very, very well. (Kirkus UK)
In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he
voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the
North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about
a new comprehension of the world's geography and its people's. He
was the linking figure between the grey specualtion of the early
eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the
nineteenth century. Richard Hough's biograpahy is full of new
insights and interpretations of one of the world's greatest
mariners.
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