Download or read book Captain Cook written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain Cook the Seamen s Seaman written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain Cook the Seamen s Seaman written by Alan Villiers and published by Penguin Hardcover. This book was released on 2001 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important explorer of his day, Captain James Cook's coat of arms carries the motto: He left nothing unattempted.
Download or read book Captain Cook the Seaman s Seaman written by Alan John Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain Cook the Seaman s Seaman written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain Cook the Seamen s Seaman written by Alan Villiers and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1967 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain Cook the Seamen s Seaman A Study of the Great Discoverer Ill by Adrian Small written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain Cook the Seaman s Seaman A Study of the Great Discoverer Illustrations by Adrian Small With Plates Including Portraits written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain James Cook written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain James Cook the Seamen s Seaman written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain James Cook written by Bill Finnis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a gripping account of the career and achievements of one of the most intriguing figures of world exploration and British naval history -- Captain James Cook. Born in 1728, the son of a farm laborer, Cook, through sheer determination, keen intellect and consummate skills as a seaman, rose to honours and recognition in his own time and to a unique and enduring prominence in the history of navigation. The book retraces Cook's three voyages, ending with his tragic death in Hawaii in 1779. It also assesses his unique contribution to exploration and discovery, to seafaring, science and medicine. It took extraordinary courage to sail for months on end through unchartered waters, aboard crowded ships, relying almost entirely on the skills and knowledge of the sea possessed by the captain, his officers and crew. One can almost feel the spray and taste the salt as this fast-moving narrative unfolds. Superbly illustrated with Bill Finnis's photographs, maps and evocative sketches from his own six-year voyage, as well as the charts, paintings and engravings of the period, this fascinating book offers a unique understanding of the personality and achievements of Captain James Cook, seaman and scientist.
Download or read book James Cook Early Life as a Merchant Seaman 1728 1755 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a chronology compiled by Paul Capper about the early life of English mariner and explorer James Cook (1728-1779), provided by the Captain Cook Study Unit (CCSU), a society for those interested in Captain James Cook.
Download or read book Captain Cook s War Peace written by John Robson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768? As this new book shows, by that date he had become supremely and uniquely qualified for the exacting tasks of exploration.This was a period when who you were and who you knew counted for more than ability, but Cook, through his own skills and application, rose up through the ranks of the Navy to become a remarkable seaman to whom men of influence took notice; Generals such as Wolfe and politicians like Lord Egmont took his advice and recognised his qualities.During this period Cook added surveying, astronomical and cartographic skills to those of seamanship and navigation. He was in the thick of the action at the siege of Quebec during the Seven Years War, was the master of 400 men, and learned at first hand the need for healthy crews. By 1768 Cook was supremely qualified to captain Endeavour and a reader might ask, 'why would you choose anyone else but Cook to lead such a voyage.'Highly readable and displaying much new research, this is an important new book for Cook scholars and armchair explorers alike.
Download or read book Captain Cook written by Frank McLynn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “thoroughly researched and sharply opinionated” biography presents a nuanced portrait of the renowned 18th century navigator (The Wall Street Journal). The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with bold adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent writers have viewed Cook through the lens of colonial exploitation, regarding him as a villain. While they raise important issues, many of these critical accounts overlook his major contributions to science, navigation and cartography. In Captain Cook, Frank McLynn re-creates the voyages that took the famous navigator from his native England to the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean. Although Cook died in a senseless, avoidable conflict with the people of Hawaii, McLynn illustrates that to the men with whom he served, Cook was master of the seas and nothing less than a titan. McLynn reveals Cook's place in history as a brave and brilliant yet tragically flawed man.
Download or read book The Life of Captain James Cook written by J. C. Beaglehole and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of the life work of the most distinguished historian of Pacific exploration, this lavishly illustrated biography places Cook in the context of his times and affirms his eminence in the history of maritime discovery.
Download or read book Capt James Cook Navigator written by David Cordingly and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seaman s Guide to the Navigation of the Indian Ocean and China Sea written by William Henry Rosser and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
