Captain Cook's World: Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook R. N.

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John Robson

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Random House New Zealand LTD.

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James Cook - sailor, surveyor, cartographer and explorer - was born in Whitby in 1728 and died in Hawaii in 1779. In the course of his life he sailed into every ocean and was one of the first English explorers, in some cases the first, to set foot on most of the world's major continents; he was the first to cross both the Arctic and Antarctic circles. Like Nelson, he has acquired iconic status and his ships - Endeavour and Resolution - are as well known as Victory. "Captain Cook' World" is an atlas which maps the life and voyages of this celebrated explorer. A set of 128 specially-drawn charts, with their accompanying texts, trace his life from his childhood in Yorkshire, through his time in the North Sea coal trade, his days with the Royal Navy in Canada, and his three great voyages around the world in Endeavour and Resolution. Included on the maps are the locations visited, named and charted by Cook, the routes of his voyages, and the sites that have been marked in his honour. Introductions to the voyages and lengthy captions to the maps tell the story in narrative form.

Captain Cook's World : Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook R.N.

London: Chatham Publishing, 2001

This new encyclopedia of the life of the great explorer Captain Cook is both a meticulous piece of scholarship and an attractive and accessible reference book for the general reader. Cook - the great sailor, surveyor, cartographer and explorer - has had much written about him but, inevitably, many of the published works explore only aspects of his career; in The Captain Cook Encyclopedia the author - with the help of some twenty distinguished scholars and writers - sets out to answer any question about Cook likely to be raised in the study of his life and career. The work is arranged alphabetically and the essay length of each entry gives a proper context to the people, voyages, events, places and ships important in his life, and allows the author to deal in depth with the latest findings. The work is fully cross-referenced and each entry is followed by a suggested reading list for those wanting to pursue a topic further. There are appendices, a full bibliography and a chronology of Cook's life and times. An introductory essay on Cook's life, from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire to his violent death in Kealakekua Bay at the age of fifty, puts his achievements in context and deals with the latest findings and controversies, and the whole book is rounded off with a careful selection of illustrations and maps. Not only an unrivalled companion to every aspect of his career, The Captain Cook Encyclopedia is also an ideal introduction to that great century of exploration when Cook, more than any other, delineated the world as we know it today.

The Captain Cook Encyclopaedia

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