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Captain Cook Encyclopaedia by John Robson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration
This new encyclopaedia of the life of the great British explorer James Cook is both a meticulous piece of scholarship and an attractive and accessible reference book for the general reader.Cook - the ultimate sailor, surveyor, cartographer and explorer - has had much written about him but, inevitably, m ...Show more
Captain Cook's War & Peace The Royal Navy Years 1755-1768 by John Robson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration
Captain Cook's War and Peace: The Royal Navy Years 1755-1768 by John Robson
$70.00 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration
Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768? In a period when who you were and who you knew counted for more than ability, Cook, through his own skills and application, rose up through the ranks of the Navy to become a remarkable seaman of whom men of influence took ...Show more
Captain Cook's World - Maps of the life and voyages of James Cook RN by John Robson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration | Reading Level: very good
James Cook, sailor, surveyor, cartographer and explorer, was born in 1728 in Yorkshire and died in Hawaii in 1779. This is a set of 128 maps showing events in the life of the celebrated explorer. Beginning with his early years in England, his time in the North Sea coal trade and with the Royal Navy in C ...Show more
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