HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     McLynn, Frank.     Subjects     Cook, James, 1728-1779     Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century.     Oceania -- Discovery and exploration.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McLynn, Frank.       by title:      Captain Cook : maste...         MARC Display

Captain Cook : master of the seas / Frank McLynn. by McLynn, Frank. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011. Subjects Cook, James, 1728-1779   Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century.   Oceania -- Discovery and exploration. ISBN:  9780300114218 (hbk.) 0300114214 (hbk.) Description:  xv, 490 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. Contents:  A Yorkshire apprenticeship -- The Seven Years War -- Charting Newfoundland -- The challenge of the Pacific -- First contacts with Tahiti -- The Isle of Cythera -- Peril in Australasia -- Homeward bound -- Antarctica -- Tongans and Maoris -- Mastering the Pacific -- Lost horizon : the great southern continent -- The last voyage -- Tahiti : the final phase -- Quest for illusion : the Northwest Passage -- Hawaiian nightmare -- Tragedy on Kealakekua Beach -- Conclusion. Requests:  0 Summary:  Profiles the famous navigator, addresses the common colonialist misconceptions about the explorer and his death, and re-creates the voyages that took him from his native England to the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean. The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent writers have viewed Cook largely through the lens of colonial exploitation, regarding him as a villain and overlooking an important aspect of his identity: his nautical skills. In this authentic, engrossing biography, Frank McLynn reveals Cook's place in history as a brave and brilliant seaman. He shows how the Captain's life was one of struggle--with himself, with institutions, with the environment, with the desire to be remembered--and also one of great success. In Captain Cook, McLynn re-creates the voyages that took the famous navigator from his native England to the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean. Ultimately, Cook, who began his career as a deckhand, transcended his humble beginnings and triumphed through good fortune, courage, and talent. Although Cook died in a senseless, avoidable conflict with the people of Hawaii, McLynn illustrates that to the men with whom he served, Cook was master of the seas and nothing less than a titan. -- Jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Hawaiian Biography H B Cook Mc Checked In Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.0

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.