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Captain James Cook: a biography

Author: Richard Hough

Synopsis: James Cook was the last and greatest of the romantic navigators. In his relatively short and adventurous life ( 1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Artic and Antarctic, bringing about a new comphrension of the workd's geography and its peoples. He was the linking figure between the grey speculation of the early Eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the Nineteenth century.