Fatal Voyage: Captain Cook's Last Great Journey by Peter Aughton

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Some minor marks on inside front cover.

The Fatal Voyage is the story of Cook's final journey when he led his most dangerous and fabled expedition to search for the elusive Pacific entrance to the North West Passage.

He set sail from England in July 1776 and along the way discovered the Hawaiian archipelago before mapping and charting the formidable northwest coast of America, from Vancouver Island to the frozen northern coastline of Alaska. He sailed through the Bering Straits and although his ships reached the entrance to the North West Passage they were defeated by a sheer wall of ice blocking their way.

Cook returned to Hawaii to rest, but a series of misjudgments between his men and the islanders sparked a violent clash in which Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay. (synopsis page)