James Cook: The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World by Peter FitzSimons
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James Cook: The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World by Peter FitzSimons

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780733641275
Author: Peter FitzSimons
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2019
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 528 pages
Period: 18th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corner and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at top and tail.

Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were incredible feats of seamanship and navigation. Leading a crew of men into uncharted territories, Cook would face the best and worst of humanity as he took himself and his crew to the edge of the known world - and beyond.

With his masterful storytelling talent, Peter FitzSimons brings James Cook to life. Focusing on his most iconic expedition, the Endeavour voyage, where Cook first set foot on Australian and New Zealand soil, FitzSimons contrasts Cook against another figure who looms large in Australasian history: Joseph Banks, the aristocratic botanist.

As they left England, Banks, a rich, famous playboy, was everything that Cook was not. The voyage tested Cook's character and would help define his legacy. Now, 240 years after James Cook's death, FitzSimons reveals what kind of man James was at heart. His strengths, his weaknesses, his passions and pursuits, failures and successes. (book flap)

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