Life of Captain James Cook Tapa blanda - 1992

Stanford University Press. Good+. 1992. Paperback. 0804720096 . Cover crease else VG .

Stanford University Press, 1974. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1500grams, ISBN:9780804720090

Stanford University Press, April 1992. Trade Paperback . Used Very Good/yes .

Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1998. Later Printing. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Front free endpaper corner clipped. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships & the Sea; Exploration. ISBN: 0804720096. ISBN/EAN: 9780804720090. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 24170. . 9780804720090

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992. Later printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 772 p. "This is a tome which occassionally tells you just a little more than you really want to know about the three great voyages to the Pacific, but anyone seriously interested in the western penetration into the Pacific will want to read this book. It is also an articulate and formidable defense of Cook's character, seamanship, and wisdom. While Cook is not quite so venerable now in a time of great sensitivity to the depradations western invasion inflicted on indiginous people, this book presents us with an undoubtedly great man interested not in conquest but in geography, exploration, discovery, science, anthropology and peaceful relations between cultures. The aftermath was a tragedy, (see Alan Moorehead's The Fatal Impact) but Cook was simply too high-minded and short-sighted to forsee what would come after. Cook was for better and worse a man of his time--and it was an age of… Leer más

Stanford University Press. Very Good. 1992. Paperback. 0804720096 . This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. It does have some cover shelfwear. Inside pages are clean. ; 9.34 X 6.33 X 2 inches; 772 pages .

Stanford University Press. New in New dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0804720096 . This specific paperback book is in new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "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 Josepph 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. This… Leer más

Stanford University Press. NEW and UNREAD. Small bruise to top corner and very slight crease to front cover.. 2004. Trade paperback. 760p. Index. Frontispiece.

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