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Stanford University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Good. 6x2x9. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. xi, 760 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. <br> Captain Cook is the greatest explorer-seaman of all time, yet the world has had to wait almost two centuries for the first full-scale biography to do justice to the man and his achievements. Professor J.C. Beaglehole, the leading authority on Pacific exploration, devoted himself for many years to the editing of Cook's copious Journals, a monument of scholarship in four massive volumes, and the Journal of Joseph Banks who accompanied Cook in the Endeavor. The Journals completed, Beaglehole turn to writing as the crown of his life's work this biography of Cook, which was completed but for a final checking when he died.
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The Life of Captain James Cook Hardcover - 1974
by J. C. Beaglehole; John C. Beaglehole
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- Title The Life of Captain James Cook
- Author J. C. Beaglehole; John C. Beaglehole
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 760
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 1974
- ISBN 9780804708487 / 0804708487
- Weight 3.45 lbs (1.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.56 x 6.6 x 2.11 in (24.28 x 16.76 x 5.36 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 73087124
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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