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Captain James Cook

hardcover – January 1, 1967
by Villiers, Alan
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ISBN-13: 9783782201827 ISBN-10: 3782201825
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 1, 1967
Weight
1.6 lbs
Dimensions
0.00×0.00×0.00 cm

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Captain James Cook by Villiers, Alan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9783782201827.

This is the definitive biography of Captain James Cook, by the only author living today truly qualified to write it: Alan Villiers, who is probably the best-known and the last of the truly great deep-water sailing ship men. While still a schoolboy in Australia, he conceived a great admiration for this greatest of all sea explorers. First an apprentice and then a professional sailing ship seaman, he eventually became a master and sailed every ocean sea on the globe, crossing and recrossing Cooks routes many times.