Captain Cook

By Frank McLynn

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

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.