Title:
Captain Cook : master of the seas / Frank McLynn.
ISBN:
9780300114218
9788300114214
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
xv, 490 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
A Yorkshire apprenticeship -- The Seven Years War -- Charting Newfoundland -- The challenge of the Pacific -- First contacts with Tahiti -- The Isle of Cythera -- Peril in Australasia -- Homeward bound -- Antarctica -- Tongans and Maoris -- Mastering the Pacific -- Lost horizon : the great southern continent -- The last voyage -- Tahiti : the final phase -- Quest for illusion : the Northwest Passage -- Hawaiian nightmare -- Tragedy on Kealakekua Beach -- Conclusion.
Summary:
Profiles the famous navigator, addresses the common colonialist misconceptions about the explorer and his death, and re-creates the voyages that took him from his native England to the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean.
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
ocn659413198
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
