Makes use of recent scholarship in such disciplines as history, anthropology, art history, and literary criticism to place Captain James Cook in the broader context of Pacific exploration.

"The Ship" tells the remarkable story of Captain James Cook's voyage on the "Endeavour, " describing what happened when a team of volunteers boarded a replica of the ship to retrace a stretch of the route from Australia to Indonesia. 150 ...

An in-depth chronicle of Captain James Cook's three historic voyages recounts his expeditions charting the eastern Australian coast, exploring the northwest coast of North America, circumnavigating New Zealand, and discovering many Pacific ...

The extraordinary story of Captain Cook's encounters with the Polynesian Islanders is retold here in bold, vivid style, capturing the complex (and sometimes sexual) relationships between the explorers and the Islanders as well as the unresolved ...

Throughout, Horwitz also searches for Cook the man: a restless prodigy who fled his peasant boyhood, and later the luxury of Georgian London, for the privation and peril of sailing off the edge of the map."--BOOK JACKET.

Part biography, part historical mystery, this book spans the centuires to find the truth in Captain Cook's legacy.

Presents the story encompassing three separate centuries and three different lives. Captain Cook is best known for his heroic voyages through the Pacific Ocean. This work starts with his humble beginnings as the son of a farm labourer to his ...

It is no longer possible for any ship to cross the Pacific Ocean without encountering the ghost of Captain without encountering the ghost of Captain Cook and his voyages are the stuff of maritime legend.

Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time - only the acclaimed fifteenth-century explorers, Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama, can stand with him. This book explores the life and travels of James Cook in a ...

An authority on Pacific exploration analyzes the major influences on Cook's character and assesses his role and achievements as an explorer and seaman