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Thomas, Nicholas

Discoveries : The Voyages of Captain Cook

Discoveries : The Voyages of Captain Cook

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Author: Thomas, Nicholas

c 1700 to c 1800

Published on 4 April 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.


Paperback / softback | 512 pages
199 x 130 x 24 | 354g

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 and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their midst merely marked a further (if disastrous) twist in diverse histories already many centuries old. In this immensely enjoyable and absorbing book Cook's journeys are reimagined, attempting toleave behind (or master) our later preoccupations to let us see what Cook and his associates experienced and what the societies he encountered experienced - from the Beothuks of Newfoundland to the Tongans of the Friendly Islands.

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