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In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its people's. He was the linking figure between the grey specualtion of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the nineteenth century.



Richard Hough's biograpahy is full of new insights and interpretations of one of the world's greatest mariners.

Captain James Cook

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In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the... Read more

    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
    Publication Date: 03/03/2003
    ISBN13: 9780340825563, 978-0340825563
    ISBN10: 0340825561

    Number of Pages: 528

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its people's. He was the linking figure between the grey specualtion of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the nineteenth century.



    Richard Hough's biograpahy is full of new insights and interpretations of one of the world's greatest mariners.

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