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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach...
4) Captain Cook
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
5) Captain Cook
Author
Pub. Date
[1972]
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
7) Stowaway
Author
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
12) James Cook
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
The life of the British navigator and explorer whose three famous voyages resulted in the accurate mapping of much of the South Pacific.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first-ever illustrated account of Captain James Cook's epic eighteenth-century voyages, complete with excerpts from his vivid journals. This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task completed, his ship, the HMS Endeavour, continued to comb the southern hemisphere for the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xiv, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on the writings of John Ledyard, an American cook on the ship Resolution, tells of explorer James Cook's final voyage in search of the Northwest Passage, discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, and murder.
19) James Cook
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of the eighteenth-century British explorer and navigator who is famous for his three great voyages of exploration in the South Pacific Ocean, as well as for his attempt to find a Northwest passage across the North American continent.
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