Pacific Wake Captain Cook (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This copy appears to be unread and has no faults. A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted - but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and America. In the wake of Cook, everything changed. The Pacific with Sam Neill is the companion book to the Foxtel documentary series of the same name, in which actor and raconteur Sam Neill takes a deeply personal, present-day voyage to map his own understanding of James Cook, Europe's greatest navigator, and the immense Pacific Ocean itself. Voyaging on a wide variety on vessels, from container ships to fishing trawlers and sailing boats, Sam crosses the length and breadth of the largest ocean in the world to experience for himself a contemporary journey in Cook's footsteps, engaging the past and present in both modern and ancient cultural practice and peoples. Fascinating, engaging, fresh and vital - this is history - but not as you know it.…

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) fascinating opinions/annotations in pencil throughout; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardback, 16.5x24.5cm, 448pp. Very good condition (light wear; tanned page edges; cracked rear hinge) in very good dustwrapper. ISBN: 9781460756393.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 448 pages. clean tidy copy.

1st edition with a foreword by Sam Neill. XIV, 448 PP with b/w illustrations: 3 maps on double page, 6 head pieces and 14 b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 80 colour illustrations. Hard covers, dj. Near fine. 24.4 x 16.

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.