Life of Captain James Cook - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804720090ISBN-10:804720096UPC:9780804720090Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:OceaniaSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.7029Product ID:SCK5TP78A8
Life of Captain James Cook
Captain Cook is the greatest explorer-seaman of all time, yet the world has had to wait almost two centuries for the first full-scale biography to do justice to the man and his achievements. Professor J.C. Beaglehole, the leading authority on Pacific exploration, devoted himself for many years to the editing of Cook's copious Journals, a monument of scholarship in four massive volumes, and the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804720090ISBN-10:804720096UPC:9780804720090Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:OceaniaSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.7029Product ID:SCK5TP78A8
John Cawte Beaglehole was born in Wellington and attended Victoria University College to which, after graduate work in London and a period of short-lived jobs and unemployment in the 1930s, he was to return as lecturer in history, senior research fellow and finally Professor of British Commonwealth History. Among his publications are The Exploration of the Pacific, The Discovery of New Zealand,...
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