Captain Cook

By Frank McLynn

Subjects: Biography, Sailors, biography, Explorers, Ocean travel, Great britain, biography, Discovery and exploration, Cook, james, 1728-1779, Voyages around the world, History, Sailors

Description: 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.