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Title: The Life of Captain James Cook by J.C. Beaglehole ISBN: 0-8047-2009-6 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Trying, but Rewarding, Read
Comment: There is no doubt that this is the definitive biography of the renowned Captain Cook. For no other reason, persons with an interest in the greatest navigator of all time should read this work. While few details of his life outside of his three major expeditions have been retained, this book brings to life the Captain that sailed the world on his three voyages, including his personality, his foibles, his leadership, and his intellect. He was indeed a man with many admirable qualities.
So why only three stars? While the book is well researched and well organized, it is not well written. Far too often, a jumble of words is presented as a substitute for a sentence. If Beaglehole could write clearly, this would certainly be a 5 star work. On the other hand, sadly enough, a clear writing style has not always been the hallmark of a professional historian.
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitive Biography of Cook
Comment: New Zealand historian J. C. Beaglehole was perhaps the 20th century's foremost authority on European exploration in the Pacific. The main results of his long and distinguished career were "Exploration of the Pacific" and "Life of Captain James Cook". In preparation for writing the Life, he produced the definitive modern editions of the Journals of Captain Cook (4 volumes) and the Endeavour Journals of Jospeh Banks (2 volumes).
An understanding of Cook and the voyages must begin with Beaglehole.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant, comprehensive, scholarly defense of Cook.
Comment: 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 enlightenment--an exemplar of the period of science, exploration and adventure. He was of course a cold fish and hard to cosy to, but there is much to admire in this brilliant portrait of the man and his age.
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Title: The Journals (Penguin Classics) by James Cook, J. C. Beaglehole, Philip Edwards, James Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discover Cook, Hakluyt Society ISBN: 0140436472 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Captain James Cook by Richard Hough ISBN: 0393315193 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific As Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779 by James Cook, A. Grenfell Price, Geoffrey C. Ingleton ISBN: 0486227669 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1971 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz ISBN: 0312422601 Publisher: Picador Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook by Nicholas Thomas ISBN: 0802714129 Publisher: Walker & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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