Captain CookA biography of the English explorer, navigator, and cartographer who discovered Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii. |
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 7 |
The Able Seaman | 13 |
The Vanishing Continent | 28 |
Copyright | |
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aboard the Endeavour achieve Admiralty Alexander Dalrymple anchor anchorage Antarctic Circle ashore astronomer Atlantic Australia Banks Batavia Bering Strait canoes Cape Horn Cape Town Captain Cook charts circumnavigation Clerke command Cook called Cook decided Cook knew Cook left Cook Strait Cook took Cook turned Cook's course crew Dalrymple Dalrymple's discovered Discovery east coast Easter Island Endeavour River Endeavour sailed England exist expedition explorer fact Forster Friendly Islands Furneaux gales harbour Hawaiian Hugh Palliser hundred icebergs inlet journal known land lieutenant longitude Lord Maoris marines Matavai Bay miles natives naval navigator Navy never north-west officers Pacific Palliser passage pinnace Polynesians Queen Charlotte Sound Raiatea reached reef returned round Royal Society Sandwich scientists seaman ship shore sighted South Island Southern Continent Sydney Parkinson Tahiti Tahitians Tasman thought vessel voyage Wallis weather weeks Whitby collier William Hodges winds Zealand
Bibliographic information
| Title | Captain Cook |
| Author | Alistair MacLean |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1972 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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