Discoveries
The Voyages of Captain Cook
$53.29
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2018
Summary
A beautifully re-imagined account of Captain Cook’s great voyages through the Pacific.
Cook’s great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook’s arrival in their midst merely marked a further (if disastrous) twist in diverse histories already many centuries old.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141986715 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141986719 |
| Author: | Nicholas Thomas |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 351g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
A fabulous new book … focuses on the extraordinary encounters between Cook’s salt-encrusted mariners and the colourful Pacific islanders
A fabulous new book … focuses on the extraordinary encounters between Cook’s salt-encrusted mariners and the colourful Pacific islanders – Giles Milton * Living History *Valuable and vivid * Times Literary Supplement *Epic … A writer of the rarest quality…wonderful…the definitive volume for this moment in our history – Simon WinchesterRich, vivid and deeply provocative, Thomas’s work combines premiere adventure story with thorough history and intensive sociology * Publishers Weekly *
About The Author
Nicholas Thomas
Nicholas Thomas has been Director of Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge since 2006. He visited the Pacific Islands first in 1984 to research his PhD thesis on the Marquesas Islands and later worked in Fiji and New Zealand, as well as in many archives and museum collections in Europe, North America, and the Pacific. His books include Entangled Objects (1991), Oceanic Art (1995), Discoveries- The Voyages of Captain Cook (2003), and Islanders- the Pacific in the Age of Empire (2010), which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize.
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