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2) Captain Cook
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Language
English
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Introduces readers to Captain Cook, the great explorer who mapped thousands of miles of uncharted territory.
3) Stowaway
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavour, which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
James Cook, born in 1728, rose from the lowest ranks of the merchant marine, then through the Royal Navy, to become one of the most celebrated men of his time, the last and the greatest of the romantic navigator/explorers. His voyages to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific, the Arctic and the Antarctic, brought a new understanding of the world's geography and of the peoples, flora, and fauna of the lands...
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Cook's Cook follows the 1768 journey of James Cook's H.M.S. Endeavour with his ship's cook, the one-handed John Thompson, as story teller. Through real recipes from the ship's galley, events on board and the places the ship traveled on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories. Here are stories of social class, hierarchy and race; stories of explorers and the people of the land; the story of one of the world's most famous explorers told...
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English
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"A history of the legendary ship Endeavour"--
Endeavour was the name given to a collier, a commonplace coal carrying vessel, made of oak, bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. No one could have guessed it would go on to become the most significant ship in the chronicle of British exploration. It carried Captain James Cook on his first major voyage, newly charting the existence of New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. During the battles for...
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration.
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Language
English
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On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two and a half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides' bravura account of Cook's last journey...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. James Cook Geographer, historical consultant and bestselling author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the legend as she traces his story in a series that is part biography, part travelogue and completely enthralling. A hero to some, a villain to others, this son of an English farm labourer described more of the globe than...
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