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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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Highly readable * Terry Waite, The Sunday Times *
Richard Hough's biography is as fascinating as it is felicitous in style and entertaining in content * Field Marshal Lord Carver, The Sunday Telegraph *
Hough tells the story with skill to give a convincing smell of the sea * Flora Fraser, The Times *
Captain James Cook does handsome justice to the navigator * Ian Thomson, The Independent *

Captain James Cook

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      Publisher Coronet Books
      Published 3 March 2003
      ISBN-13 9780340825563
      978-0340825563
      ISBN-10 0340825561
      Also in:
      Biography Biography: adventurers and explorers Biography: historical, political and military

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      Highly readable * Terry Waite, The Sunday Times *
      Richard Hough's biography is as fascinating as it is felicitous in style and entertaining in content * Field Marshal Lord Carver, The Sunday Telegraph *
      Hough tells the story with skill to give a convincing smell of the sea * Flora Fraser, The Times *
      Captain James Cook does handsome justice to the navigator * Ian Thomson, The Independent *

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