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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.
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Travel, Voyages around the world, Explorers, Biography, Discovery and exploration, Entdeckungsreise, Cook, james, 1728-1779, Oceania, discovery and exploration, Discoveries in geography, Great britain, biography, Voyages autour du monde, Découverte et explorationPeople
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
2003, Allen & Unwin
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
July 30, 2002, Washington Square Press
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
Apr 06, 2001, Allen & Unwin
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Farther than any man: the rise and fall of Captain James Cook
2001, Pocket Books
in English
0743400682 9780743400688
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
2001, Atria Books
in English
0743436393 9780743436397
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