Born in 1728 at Marton in Yorkshire, the son of a farm labourer, James Cook rose through the merchant service and the Royal Navy to command three voyages of discovery. Kingston follows each in turn, from Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia to the Antarctic ice and the giant statues of Easter Island, then adds a chapter on Polynesia after Cook.
A Victorian life of the great navigator by a favourite writer of boys’ sea stories, with the missionary outlook of its day. Download the free EPUB.