Captain Cook

by MACLEAN, Alister

First Edition

Price: $55.00
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Book description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. VERY GOOD to NEAR FINE book condition/NEAR FINE dust jacket. Printed in Great Britain. Dark aqua marine hardcover with gilt letting on spine. 1/2" shelf bump to top edge & very minor shelf bumping to head & tail of spine. Colorful dust jacket shows Cook's death in Hawaii painted by John Webber, the artist who acompanied Cook on his final voyage. Very little shelf rub to edges, corners & back.Photo of author & short biography on back flap. A Chart of the World endpapers. Frontispiece is a full color medallion portrait of James Cook by Josiah Wedgwood. "Mr. MacLean's achievement in this book is to present a graphic and lively account of this great explorer, and to describe in exciting detail his three amazing voyages and the adventures that befell him, his crews, and his ships in lands that until he sailed were in many cases unknown. Cook's life was a resounding success and the story of it is a thrilling exemplification of his own description of himself as a man 'who had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before, but as far as it was possible for man to go'." Several full color & numerous black & white illustrations & photographs. 192 pp with index. Very clean, tight book. Appears Unread. Not price clipped. Original price $ 9.95. Picture is provided by the seller & is of actual book you will receive. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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