Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas

Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook

Nicholas Thomas

467 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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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 an...

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