Captain James Cook
A Biography
$47.36
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2003
Summary
In Cook’s relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards 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 on…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340825563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340825561 |
| Author: | Richard Hough |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2003 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 164mm x 35mm |
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Critics Review
‘Richard Hough’s biography is as fascinating as it is felicitous in style and entertaining in content’
Highly readable - Terry Waite, The Sunday Times
Richard Hough’s biography is as fascinating as it is felicitous in style and entertaining in content - Field Marshal Lord Carver, The Sunday TelegraphHough tells the story with skill to give a convincing smell of the sea - Flora Fraser, The TimesCaptain James Cook does handsome justice to the navigator - Ian Thomson, The IndependentAbout The Author
Richard Hough
Richard Hough, a biographer and naval historian of high reputation, is the author of many books. He wrote THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN COOK in 1979 to mark the bicentenary of the explorer’s death that year.
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