6/22/2023 0 Comments Cook by Nicholas Thomas![]() His men suffered near shipwreck, were ravaged by tropical diseases, and survived frozen oceans they did so not for conquest but to map the unknown and chart new territory." "Cook's epic journeys captured the imagination of his time, introducing a European public to heretofore unheard of animals and plants, a barren Arctic and Antarctic, and an erotically charged tropical world. ![]() ![]() Through bold and original insights, Thomas also breathes life into the complex and controversial legacy of an often-misunderstood man." "Commonly regarded as the greatest sea explorer of all time, Cook wrote that his ambition led him "not only farther than any man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go." At a time when ships were routinely lost around the English coast, the son of a Yorkshire peasant made history by expanding our geography - sailing through southern seas previously known only as a blank space on the maps, charting the eastern Australian coast and circumnavigating New Zealand, putting many Pacific islands on the map, and exploring both the Arctic and Antarctic. "The result of twenty years' research into Pacific history, culture, and art, Nicholas Thomas's Cook is the definitive chronicle of the three world-changing voyages made by Captain James Cook in the 1770s - voyages which substantially recast the known shape of the globe. ![]() Cook : the extraordinary voyages of Captain James Cook / Nicholas Thomas Book Bib ID ![]()
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