Farther than any man
the rise and fall of Captain James Cook
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Word Count
71,750 words, Guess
Page Count
287 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefartherthananyma0000duga
- Internet Archivefartherthananyma0000duga_h9g4
- ISBN-100743400682
- ISBN-139780743400688
- Goodreads3023268
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001021375
- OCLC Control Number155414811
- OCLC Control Number46456281
- Open LibraryOL3942265M
Classifications
- DDC910/.92
- DDCB
- LCCG420.C65 D84 2001
Description
A portrait of eighteenth-century explorer and adventurer Captain James Cook draws on Cook's own journals to describe his youth, his career in the Royal Navy, and his expeditions that charted the Pacific Ocean. James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (at times to a fault), intellect (though Cook was routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness. - Publisher.
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"James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (at times to a fault), intellect (though Cook was routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness."--BOOK JACKET.
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