Captain Cook
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few lives in the annals of exploration rival the audacity and consequence of James Cook's voyages across the world's most uncharted waters. Alistair MacLean's Captain Cook chronicles the extraordinary life of the Yorkshire-born sailor who rose from humble origins to become the greatest navigator of the Age of Sail, mapping the coastlines of New Zealand and Australia, charting the Pacific with unprecedented precision, and making first contact with peoples and places unknown to the Western world — until a fateful confrontation on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 brought his remarkable career to a violent end. MacLean, best known for his mastery of high-tension narrative, brings his characteristic vigour and cinematic clarity to this biographical account, presenting Cook not merely as a historical monument but as a flesh-and-blood figure driven by insatiable curiosity and iron discipline. The result is a biography that captures both the grandeur of the Age of Discovery and the perilous human cost of pushing beyond the known horizon. Readers who follow Cook across these pages will find themselves standing at the edge of the map, daring to ask what lies beyond.
Author: Alistair Maclean
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few lives in the annals of exploration rival the audacity and consequence of James Cook's voyages across the world's most uncharted waters. Alistair MacLean's Captain Cook chronicles the extraordinary life of the Yorkshire-born sailor who rose from humble origins to become the greatest navigator of the Age of Sail, mapping the coastlines of New Zealand and Australia, charting the Pacific with unprecedented precision, and making first contact with peoples and places unknown to the Western world — until a fateful confrontation on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 brought his remarkable career to a violent end. MacLean, best known for his mastery of high-tension narrative, brings his characteristic vigour and cinematic clarity to this biographical account, presenting Cook not merely as a historical monument but as a flesh-and-blood figure driven by insatiable curiosity and iron discipline. The result is a biography that captures both the grandeur of the Age of Discovery and the perilous human cost of pushing beyond the known horizon. Readers who follow Cook across these pages will find themselves standing at the edge of the map, daring to ask what lies beyond.