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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781847252098ISBN-10:1847252095UPC:9781847252098Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Adventurers & Explorers, Historical, Expeditions & DiscoveriesSize:9.11 x 6.06 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCTEZMN61A
Captain Cook: Voyager Between Two Worlds
Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the world of the peoples of the South Pacific, the gulf between the two cultures was not nearly as vast as it was a century later, when ships made of metal and powered by steam were able to expand and enforce European Empires.
In their different ways both the English and the peoples of the...Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781847252098ISBN-10:1847252095UPC:9781847252098Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Adventurers & Explorers, Historical, Expeditions & DiscoveriesSize:9.11 x 6.06 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCTEZMN61A
Professor John Gascoigne was educated at the universities of Sydney, Princeton and Cambridge. He has taught in Papua New Guinea and since 1980 has been a member of the School of History, University of New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His five previous books and other publications have dealt with the impact of the Scientific Revolution and the...
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