The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Or Why Did Captain Cook Die: Captain Cook in the South Seas (Allen Lane History S.) - Softcover

Salmond, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713996617 ISBN 13: 9780713996616

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2003

Synopsis

506 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. A Masterly Account Of Cook's Three Pacific Voyages.

About this title

Review:

"The book demonstrates triumphantly that scholarship and readability need never exclude one another." -- Independent on Sunday, June 15, 2003 (by Min Wild)

Synopsis:

This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's ships, far from remaining little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, become ever more tangled in the worlds they encounter, leaving Cook's tattooed, dazzled sailors just as altered as the Polynesians themselves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0713996617
• ISBN 13: 9780713996616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528