MacLean, Alistair
Captain Cook
- ISBN 13:
- 9780007371983
- author:
- MacLean, Alistair
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Biography, Historical, Biography,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 3 working days
Description
Captain Cook: A Graphic and Lively Account of One of Britain's Great National Heroes On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this absorbing story brings to life one of Britain's greatest national heroes. Born in obscurity but driven by a boundless passion for new horizons, James Cook became the greatest combination of seaman, explorer, navigator, and cartographer that the world had ever known. Between 1768 and 1779, Captain Cook circumnavigated the globe three times, breaking record after record of exploration, endurance, and personal achievement. He explored and charted the coasts of New Zealand, landed in Botany Bay, mapped the Pacific, and travelled further south than any man before him. Alistair MacLean presents a graphic and lively account of this great explorer's adventures, his crews, and his ships in lands that were unknown until he sailed. This book is a gripping narrative of Captain Cook's life, from his humble beginnings to his tragic death at the age of fifty-one.
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