Resolution: Captain Cook's Second Voyage of Discoverye

Aughton, Peter

ISBN 10: 0297830775 / ISBN 13: 9780297830771

Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2004

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ex-library book VG conditionNot clipped. Some age-toning and usual library stamp but otherwise VG and excellent reading copy. With maps and illustrations.

Seller Inventory # 000413

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Resolution: Captain Cook's Second Voyage of Discoverye
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297830775
• ISBN 13: 9780297830771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • Travel and Travel Memoirs

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Synopsis

A year and a day after James Cook arrived back on English soil having claimed Australia and New Zealand for the British crown, he set sail again on a three-year journey (1772-1775) that still remains the greatest exploratory voyage ever undertaken in the far Southern waters of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. His was the first ship ever to cross the Antarctic Circle, and no sailing ship since has ventured further south through the ice. This is a colourful and exciting story of the crew and their life aboard the Resolution and the adventures that occurred whenever they landed on exotic islands and coasts such as Tahiti, Easter Island, the Tonga Islands and above all the snow, fog, treacherous ice and blizzards of Antarctica.

About the Author

Peter Aughton lectures at the University of the West of England and in the 1970s he worked on the Concorde supersonic airliner. He is the author of the highly praised ENDEAVOUR: The Story of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage and NEWTON'S APPLE: Isaac Newton and the English Scientific Renaissance. He is an expert on computers, mathematics and astronomy and is a gifted story teller.