The Life Of Captain James Cook
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
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Few lives have shaped the map of the modern world as profoundly as that of Captain James Cook, and J. C. Beaglehole's monumental biography stands as the definitive account of this extraordinary mariner. The Life of Captain James Cook chronicles the remarkable journey of a Yorkshire farm boy who rose through the ranks of the Royal Navy to become the greatest explorer of the eighteenth century, charting the coastlines of New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific with a precision that astonished the scientific world. Beaglehole meticulously reconstructs Cook's three epic voyages — from the transit of Venus observed at Tahiti to the frozen reaches of the Antarctic and Arctic — drawing on a vast archive of journals, charts, and correspondence to present an intimate and authoritative portrait of the man behind the legend. Beaglehole, himself a distinguished New Zealand historian and the foremost Cook scholar of the twentieth century, brings both scholarly rigour and genuine literary grace to his subject, illuminating not only the ambition and iron discipline that drove Cook but also the complex humanity beneath the uniform. This magisterial work, published posthumously in 1974 after Beaglehole's death and awarded the Hawke's Bay Cook Memorial Prize, stands as one of the great biographical achievements in the English language. It is a testament to the enduring power of curiosity and courage — and it will leave the reader wondering at what cost the age of discovery truly came.
Author: J. C. Beaglehole
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Adam & Charles Black
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Price clipped.
Few lives have shaped the map of the modern world as profoundly as that of Captain James Cook, and J. C. Beaglehole's monumental biography stands as the definitive account of this extraordinary mariner. The Life of Captain James Cook chronicles the remarkable journey of a Yorkshire farm boy who rose through the ranks of the Royal Navy to become the greatest explorer of the eighteenth century, charting the coastlines of New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific with a precision that astonished the scientific world. Beaglehole meticulously reconstructs Cook's three epic voyages — from the transit of Venus observed at Tahiti to the frozen reaches of the Antarctic and Arctic — drawing on a vast archive of journals, charts, and correspondence to present an intimate and authoritative portrait of the man behind the legend. Beaglehole, himself a distinguished New Zealand historian and the foremost Cook scholar of the twentieth century, brings both scholarly rigour and genuine literary grace to his subject, illuminating not only the ambition and iron discipline that drove Cook but also the complex humanity beneath the uniform. This magisterial work, published posthumously in 1974 after Beaglehole's death and awarded the Hawke's Bay Cook Memorial Prize, stands as one of the great biographical achievements in the English language. It is a testament to the enduring power of curiosity and courage — and it will leave the reader wondering at what cost the age of discovery truly came.