Resolution: The Story of Captain Cook's Second Voyage of Discovery - Brossura

Aughton, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0753820382 ISBN 13: 9780753820384

Casa editrice: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0753820382
• ISBN 13: 9780753820384
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia