The wide wide sea : imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385544764
- ISBN: 0385544774
- ISBN: 9780385544771
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxi, 408 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
remote - Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2024]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Book One. The First Navigator of Europe. Negative discoverer -- Proto-anthropologist -- A human pet -- A fine retreat -- A natural politeness -- The problem of the ice -- No tutor but nature -- Fresh discoveries -- The secret instructions -- Book Two. The Weight of My Resentment. Isla del Infierno -- Tavern of the seas -- The isle of desolation -- Alonna-lunawanna -- A shocking scene of carnage -- The land of the long white cloud -- Return to grass cove -- Book Three. Faraway Heaven. Aphrodite's island -- This barbarous custom -- Duped by every designing knave -- A kingdom for a goat -- The ardor of inviolable friendship -- Faraway heaven -- Scorched up by the heat of the sun -- A new race of people -- In the land of the Menehune -- Book Four. New Albion. Foul weather -- Soft gold -- In Bering's wake -- Deep water and bold shores -- Possessed -- Risen in a new world -- Big with every danger -- Book Five. Apotheosis. Pathway of the gods -- Approaching adoration -- Golden days -- A welcome overstayed -- The water's edge -- The bones of Captain Cook -- Lono's tears -- Epilogue. The long concealed arrangements of the Almighty. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 09, 2024). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. History. Electronic books. |