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The Life of Captain James Cook
Language: en
Pages: 828
Authors: J. C. Beaglehole
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-04-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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The culmination of the life work of the most distinguished historian of Pacific exploration, this lavishly illustrated biography places Cook in the context of h
Captain James Cook
Language: en
Pages: 76
Authors: Aldyth Morris
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-06-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Captain James Cook is perhaps best remembered as the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands. In his lifetime, however, Cook was noted for his skill as a c
The Voyages of Captain James Cook
Language: en
Pages: 323
Authors: James Cook
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-01 - Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

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The first-ever illustrated account of the explorer and cartographer’s epic eighteenth-century Pacific voyages, complete with excerpts from his journals. This
Farther Than Any Man
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Martin Dugard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09-13 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of th
Captain Cook's World
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: John Robson
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press

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James Cook, sailor, surveyor, cartographer, and explorer, was born in 1728 in Yorkshire. In the course of his illustrious career, he sailed into every ocean and