題名:
The wide wide sea [large print] : imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook
個人著者:
GVPL_EDITION:
First large print edition.
PUBDATE:
2024
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Random House Large Print, [2024]
©2024
物理描述:
xxii, 657 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN(国际标准书号):
9780593863183
摘要:
Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
內容:
Author's note -- Prologue: And louder grew the shouting -- Book One: The first navigator of Europe -- Book Two: The weight of my resentment -- Book Three: Faraway Heaven -- Book Four: New Albion -- Book Five: Apotheosis -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
LANGUAGE:
English