Paperback, 304 pages
English language
Published July 30, 2002 by Washington Square Press.
5 stars
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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.
Subjects
- Biography: general
- Geographical discovery & exploration
- Explorers
- Biography / Autobiography
- Biography & Autobiography
- Voyages around the world
- Biography/Autobiography
- Special Interest - Adventure
- Great Britain
- Historical - General
- Travel / Adventure
- 1728-1779
- Biography
- Cook, James,