Year: 2020 Language: english Author: Alistair MacLean Genre: History Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780008353346 Format: EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: n/a Description: James Cook was 18 years old when he joined the British merchant navy, becaming an apprentice. He studied maths, charting, geography and astronomy, until his skill and knowledge of astronomy was noticed by the Royal Navy, and he was appointed as the leader of an astronomical expedition that the Royal Society was organising. He was promoted to Lieutenant for what became his First Voyage. By 1758 he was the master of his own ship and he went to Canada as part of his service to the navy. He is considered one of the greatest navigators and explorers of all time. Cook mapped the east coast of Australia, which paved the way for British settlement 18 years later. He also proved some theories to be wrong; that there was no great ‘Southern Continent’, for example. He also collected lots of samples of flora and fauna from new places, and he recorded customs and interactions with native peoples. He is still considered the greatest combination of seaman, explorer, navigator, and cartographer that the world had ever known. The author presents a lively account of this great explorer, his three amazing voyages and the adventures that befell him, his crews, and his ships in lands that until he sailed were in many cases unknown. Cook's life was a resounding success and the story of it is a thrilling exemplification of his own description of himself as a man 'who had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before, but as far as it was possible for man to go'. Alistair MacLean, a former Royal Navy sailor, is a well-known novelist, who has dozens of titles to his credit, some of which have been worldwide hits, such as "The Guns of Navarone" and "Where Eagles Dare", among others.
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Captain Cook, Explorer Navigator Hero
Language: english
Author: Alistair MacLean
Genre: History
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780008353346
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: n/a
Description: James Cook was 18 years old when he joined the British merchant navy, becaming an apprentice. He studied maths, charting, geography and astronomy, until his skill and knowledge of astronomy was noticed by the Royal Navy, and he was appointed as the leader of an astronomical expedition that the Royal Society was organising. He was promoted to Lieutenant for what became his First Voyage. By 1758 he was the master of his own ship and he went to Canada as part of his service to the navy.
He is considered one of the greatest navigators and explorers of all time. Cook mapped the east coast of Australia, which paved the way for British settlement 18 years later. He also proved some theories to be wrong; that there was no great ‘Southern Continent’, for example. He also collected lots of samples of flora and fauna from new places, and he recorded customs and interactions with native peoples. He is still considered the greatest combination of seaman, explorer, navigator, and cartographer that the world had ever known.
The author presents a lively account of this great explorer, his three amazing voyages and the adventures that befell him, his crews, and his ships in lands that until he sailed were in many cases unknown. Cook's life was a resounding success and the story of it is a thrilling exemplification of his own description of himself as a man 'who had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before, but as far as it was possible for man to go'. Alistair MacLean, a former Royal Navy sailor, is a well-known novelist, who has dozens of titles to his credit, some of which have been worldwide hits, such as "The Guns of Navarone" and "Where Eagles Dare", among others.
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