Captain Cook: Obession and Betrayal in the New World Tapa dura - 2002

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Ebury Press, UK, 2003. Softcover. Book Condition: Good. Ex library with laminated covers. Very clean interior..

London, U.K: Ebury Press, 2002. .Seems unread but tiny owner's front inscr'n; crisp uncliiped d/w sl sunned. . First Edition/First Printing. Cloth. Nr Fine./Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

Ebury Press, 2002. vii, 376, text illus, maps. . HB. Vg in d/w. Light browning to paper. From the library of Keith Hyatt (d. 2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, with his name to the front pastedown.. Captain Cook was a man making two journeys, one public and one personal, and their success and ultimate cataclysmic failure are intertwined. By the time he "discovered" Australia, the mythology around Cook had set fast. Its strength endured the fractures of an unheroic descent and violent death. Almost 100 years later another man catches a boat to Australia. Like Cook, George Collingridge, aristocrat and artist, is seeking adventure - and like Cook, it proved to be his undoing. His journey leads him to old maps of early explorers, secret tales of hidden lands and buried treasure. It leads him to the real discoverers of Australia - the Portuguese. He stakes his reputation on the claim and loses it; his life is ruined by obsession. A hundred years later, Vanessa Collingridge… Leer más

Ebury Press, Great Britain, 2002. Softcover. Very Good. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australian History; ISBN: 0091879132. ISBN/EAN: 9780091879136. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 40415. . 9780091879136

London: Ebury Press, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's black cloth with title in gilt on spine. No inscriptions. Map illustrations on endpapers. Page edges browned. 376 pages. Very good illustrated dustwrapper, which is not price-clipped and which is protected in a removable cover. During the author's research poring over yellowing library index cards she was surprised to come across her own name. She was even more surprised to discover that this author, George Collingridge was a relative and that 100 years ago he too had set off in search of his hero, Captain Cook. But it was only when she learnt of Collingridge's own shocking discovery that she realised how intertwined she was with Cook's legacy.

London : Ebury Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: vii, 376p. : ill. ; 24cm. Subjects: Cook, James (1728-1779) -- Journeys. Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Ebury, 2002-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!