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Captain Cook
Author:
Glyndwr Williams
Published:
2004
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
In the more than two hundred years since his death, Cook's reputation has been much discussed, opinion ranging from celebration of his achievement to more subjective assessments of the long-term implications of his voyages in those countries of the Pacific which he visited. The thirteen essays in this book, grouped in four sections, continue the debate. hardback
ISBN 978-1-843-83100-6
Price:
£45.00
The Buccaneer Explorer
Author:
William Dampier
Published:
2007
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
William Dampier [1651-1715] is the most remarkable seaman that England produced in the century and a half between Drake and Captain Cook. They each circumnavigated the world once; Dampier did so three times. He commanded the first government-funded voyage of discovery with a specific mission to report on matters of government and science. paperback
ISBN 978-1-843-83141-9
Price:
£14.99
The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery
Author:
J.C. Beaglehole
Published:
1999
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This classic set of three volumes in four books plus portfolio, edited from the original manuscripts, provides for the first time a complete, reliable and authoritative text of Cook's account of his voyages of discovery. Published over many years, complete sets of previous editions have been hard to come by. This reissue makes more widely available to historians a vast range of material relating to all aspects of 18th-century scientific advances. hardback
ISBN 978-0-851-15744-3
Price:
£750.00
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