Captain Cook (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ronald Syme
- First Published: 1960
- Time of Work: 1736–1779
- Setting: London, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Alaska, the Bering Strait, and the Antarctic Circle
- Principal Characters: Captain James Cook, William Sanderson, Elizabeth Batts, William Dampier, Joseph Banks, Captain Wallis, Charles Green, Zachary Hicks, Alexander Dalrymple, Lieutenant Tobias Furneaux
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Voyages, Eighteenth century, Islands, Sailing or sailors, Biography, Pacific Ocean, Exploration or explorers
- Locales: London, England, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, Tahiti, Bering Sea, Samoa, Cook Islands
Form and Content
Sir Ronald Syme’s Captain Cook: Pacific Explorer is an engaging, ninety-six-page essay without subdivisions but enlivened every few pages by one of William Stobbs’s thirty-five black-and-white illustrations, each of which covers either a full page or a half page. Readers are further informed by an essential two-page map of James Cook’s three major voyages. Cook’s life and career unfold chronologically, from his school experiences in Yorkshire, England, at the age of eight to his death on a Hawaiian beach forty-three years later.
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