Life of Captain James Cook

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0804720096 ISBN13: 9780804720090 Release Date: April 1992 Publisher: Stanford University Press Length: 772 Pages Weight: 2.65 lbs. Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2" Captain Cook is the greatest explorer-seaman of all time, yet the world has had to wait almost two centuries for the first full-scale biography to do justice to the man and his achievements. Professor J.C. Beaglehole, the leading authority on Pacific exploration, devoted himself for many years to the editing of Cook's copious Journals, a monument of scholarship in four massive volumes, and the Journal of Josepph Banks who accompanied Cook in the Endeavor. The Journals completed, Beaglehole turn to writing as the crown of his life's work this biography of Cook, which was completed but for a final checking when he died. This is not merely a chronological account of events in Cook's life but a deeply revealing study of the growth of a complex character, stubborn and