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Captain Cook : master of the seas /

The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent writers have viewed Cook largely through the lens of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McLynn, Frank (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contents -- Illustrations -- Charting Cook -- A Yorkshire Apprenticeship -- The Seven Years War -- Charting Newfoundland -- The Challenge of the Pacific -- First Contacts with Tahiti -- The Isle of Cythera -- Peril in Australasia -- Homeward Bound -- Antarctica -- Tongans and Maoris -- Mastering the Pacific -- Lost Horizon: The Great -- Southern Continent -- The Last Voyage -- Tahiti: The Final Phase -- Quest for Illusion: -- The Northwest Passage -- Hawaiian Nightmare -- Tragedy on Kealakekua Beach -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes 
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