Captain James Cook
Published on 9. May 2013
416 pages
978-1-4447-1924-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 specualtion of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Richard Hough's biograpahy is full of new insights and interpretations of one of the world's greatest mariners.
Richard Hough's biograpahy is full of new insights and interpretations of one of the world's greatest mariners.
Reviews / Votes
Highly readable * The Sunday Times * Richard Hough's biography is as fascinating as it is felicitous in style and entertaining in content -- Field Marshall Lord Carver * Sunday Telegraph * Hough tells the story with skill to give a convincing smell of the sea -- Flora Fraser * The Times * Captain James Cook does handsome justice to the navigator -- Ian Thompson * Independent *More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton General Division (Digital)
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
16pp b/w
File size
7,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4447-1924-6 (9781444719246)
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Richard Hough
Captain James Cook
Book
12/1999
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
€44.80
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Person
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.
