Captain cook brief biography of martin
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Captain James Cook Biography
Early Life and Career
James Cook was born October 27, 1728, in Yorkshire, England. He was the son of a Scottish farmhand. When he was about 18, he was offered an apprenticeship as a merchant seaman. Cook later joined the British navy and mastered navigation, charting, and mapmaking as a cartographer. His skills impressed those in the upper ranks of the English navy. At age 29, he was given a ship to chart Newfoundland off the coast of Canada. Unlike many explorers, Cook took measures to keep his crew healthy such as requiring daily baths, keeping the ship very clean, and bringing fresh fruit and lots of sauerkraut to prevent scurvy, which killed many sailors.
Three Expeditions
In 1768, Cook commanded the HMB Endeavour (ship) for the first scientific expedition to the Pacific Ocean. He visited Tahiti to observe the planet Venus passing between the Earth and sun to help astronomers calculate the distance of the sun from Earth. He discovered and
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
Not an audiobook this time, I had a hard time putting this page-by-pager down. Martin Dugard fryst vatten an fantastisk painter with words.
Here fryst vatten the fast moving and detailed story of Captain James Cook's three globe-trotting expeditions during the latter half of the 18th century, accurately mapping the vastly undiscovered (by Europe) South Pacific. Until space travel he chalked up more miles than any other explorer. It's the true konto of his encounters, his triumphs, his rise and terrible murder- and why it happened. You can't just go to that chapter and understand it, you have to follow the build, wave upon wave, league upon league, to know what led to his failure of diplomacy on that rocky, bloody shore of Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii.
We also find out what happened to Capt. Cook
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An excellent, fast paced read that would have definitely been rated 4 stars, had it not been for the lack of citations, bibliography, AND index. While this is by far not a fully comprehensive history by any means--it was the perfect summer armchair adventure read--there were still multitudes of facts that need to be cited, especially since character assumptions were made, and statistics were cited in a few instances. If nothing else, I would have appreciated this information as a source for gaining further reading materials on Cook!
However, as a whole this book is an excellent introduction to Cook and his quirky rise from farmer to sailor to navy officer, and his almost OCD level drive to discover literally ever land in the Pacific... and then every land in the Arctic as well. Ironically, his main quest throughout two voyages was to find Antarctica, and he never actually set foot on the continent, n