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Author | : William Douglass Forsyth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : |
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"The purpose of this booklet is to recall the arrival of the first Europeans on the east coast of Australia in HMS "Endeavour" in April, 1770, and their discoveries on and off the coast from Gippsland, Victoria, to Cape York, Queensland ... "
Author | : J. Cook |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5871895751 |
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Author | : Martin Dugard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2001-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743436393 |
Download Farther Than Any Man Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (at times to a fault), intellect (though Cook was routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness. When Great Britain announced a major circumnavigation in 1768 -- a mission cloaked in science, but aimed at the pursuit of world power -- it came as a political surprise that James Cook was given command. Cook's surveying skills had contributed to the British victory over France in the Seven Years' War in 1763, but no commoner had ever commanded a Royal Navy vessel. Endeavor's stunning three-year journey changed the face of modern exploration, charting the vast Pacific waters, the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, and making landfall in Tahiti, Tierra del Fuego, and Rio de Janeiro. After returning home a hero, Cook yearned to get back to sea. He soon took control of the Resolution and returned to his beloved Pacific, in search of the elusive Southern Continent. It was on this trip that Cook's taste for power became an obsession, and his legendary kindness to island natives became an expectation of worship -- traits that would lead him first to greatness, then to catastrophe. Full of action, lush description, and fascinating historical characters like King George III and Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and gruesome demise of Capt. James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on traveling farther than any man.
Author | : John Molony |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781925501285 |
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Captain James Cook and the discovery of Australia
Author | : John Darkin |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1458785181 |
Download From Cook to Convicts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in his ship, the HM Bark Endeavour. Setting out from England in 1768, he was given two instructions; to observe the transit of Venus and to find and chart the mythical Great Southern Land. He succeeded in both tasks, despite he and his crew facing great hardship and danger, to...
Author | : James Cook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : |
Download Captain Cook in Australia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mitchell Library, Sydney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Bibliography of Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Catalogue of an exhibition held to celebrate the bi-centenary of Captain Cook's birth.
Author | : Peter Aughton |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Atlases, Historical |
ISBN | : 9780304362363 |
Download Endeavour Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An illustrated account of life on board the Endeavour and its epic journey into the unknown between 1768 and 1771. Captain James Cook's voyage resulted in the mapping of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. According to the British government (who wished to deceive the world of its true purpose) it was merely a scientific expedition to observe the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun, a measurement that could help establish the scale of the universe itself. The real purpose was to find Terra Australis. Peter Aughton's narrative brings to life the main characters.
Author | : Glyndwr Williams |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674031944 |
Download The Death of Captain Cook Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a style that is more detective story than conventional biography, Williams explores the multiple narratives of Cook's death. In short, Williams examines the story of Cook's progress from obscurity to fame and, eventually, to infamy--a story that, until now, has never been fully told.
Author | : Jillian Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Captain Cook Myth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Attempts to examine why Cook has assumed heroic proportions when he was not the first to "discover" Australia.