500 pages. creased & sunned spine, wear, tanned pagesCAPTAIN JAMES COOK: A Biographyby R ichard HoughCoronet, UK, 1995ISBN 9780340825563 midsize pb, 500pp, b/w platesFAIR: creased &amp ; sunned spine, wear, tanned pagesIn Cook's relativel y short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western sea boards of North America, the North and South Paci fic and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehensi on of the world's geography and its people's. He was the linking figure between the grey speculation of the early eighteenth centu ry and the industrial age of the first half of the nineteenth cen tury. Richard Hough's biography is full of new insights and inter pretations of one of the world's greatest mariners. Seller Inventory # 1126bd

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Title: CAPTAIN JAMES COOK: A Biography

Publisher: Coronet

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

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In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western sea boards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its people's. He was the linking figure between the grey speculation of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the nineteenth century. Richard Hough's biography is full of new insights and interpretations of one of the world's greatest mariners.

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Richard Hough with his high reputation as a biographer and naval historian, is the author of many books. He wrote THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN COOK in 1979 to mark the bicentenary of the explorer's death in that year.

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