Captain Cook : : Master of the Seas
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Call Number: 921 Cook, James
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 490 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300114218
0300114214
SUBJECTS
Cook, James, -- 1728-1779.
Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century.
Oceania -- Discovery and exploration.