The Life of Captain James Cook

Stanford University Press, 1974. hardcover. Very Good. 6x2x9. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Minor shelf wear. 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.