9780715610619 - Captain Cook di Gould, Rupert T. (8 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Jacket. Published by Duckworth Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 128p black hardback with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial jacket fresh, pages clean and unmarked, first edition, excellent condition Language: English.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine/Near Fine. New Edition. A concise history of the great navigator's life and voyages. Black and white maps. Blank bookplate on FFEP. Lightest of wear. 128 pp.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Reprint. 128 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

New edition of the 1935 original, with an introduction by Gavin Kennedy. 128 PP with 6 figures for 10 maps. Fp: Portrait of James Cook by Nathaniel Dance. Hard cover, dj. Ex-library copy with stamps, etc. on endpapers and title-page. Good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.2.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. OF ALL THE CAPTAIN COOK BIOGRAPHIES , GOULD'S, FIRST PUBLISHED BEFORE W.W.2REMAINS THE BEST SHORT SUMMARY. VERY CLEAN AND TIDY.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Revised Edition. CAPTAIN COOK R. T Gould Introduction by Gavin Kennedy Duckworth Publishing, London.1978 New edition. ISBN 0715610619 128pp Hardback. This copy is in FINE condition in a FINE price clipped dustwrapper. There is a small neat signature of ownership to the front paste down that is hidden by the dustwrapper front flap. Laid in is a review of this book taken from the Times Literary Supplement 25th August 1978. Originally published in 1935 and this new edition has been revised and edited by Gavin Kennedy who adds an informed and perceptive introduction to this edition. Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728 - 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This helped bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society. This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cook's career and the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In three voyages Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved. As he progressed on his voyages of discovery he surveyed and named features, and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. He displayed a combination of seamanship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage and an ability to lead men in adverse conditions. Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. He left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge which was to influence his successors well into the 20th century and numerous memorials worldwide have been dedicated to him. Ref P7.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. In Stock.