The Pacific. In the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill.

Wilson Anastasios, Meaghan

ISBN 10: 1460756398 / ISBN 13: 9781460756393

Published by HarperCollins, Sydney, 2018

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Orig.-Pappband mit SU, XIV/448 Seiten, Gr.-8°. Erste Auflage (2018). Seltene Hardcover-Ausgabe in englischer Originalsprache. Schutzumschlag mit ganz kleinenRandläsuren. Insgesamt handelt es sich um ein sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pacific. In the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill.
• Publisher: HarperCollins, Sydney
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 1460756398
• ISBN 13: 9781460756393
• Binding: Orig.-Pappband
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Geowissenschaften
  • Geschichte und Archäologie
  • Reiseführer und Reiseberichte

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Synopsis

A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted - but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and America. In the wake of Cook, everything changed. The Pacific with Sam Neill is the companion book to the Foxtel documentary series of the same name, in which actor and raconteur Sam Neill takes a deeply personal, present-day voyage to map his own understanding of James Cook, Europe's greatest navigator, and the immense Pacific Ocean itself. Voyaging on a wide variety on vessels, from container ships to fishing trawlers and sailing boats, Sam crosses the length and breadth of the largest ocean in the world to experience for himself a contemporary journey in Cook's footsteps, engaging the past and present in both modern and ancient cultural practice and peoples. Fascinating, engaging, fresh and vital - this is history - but not as you know it.