Andrew Kippis, writing soon after Cook’s death, tells the whole career of the Yorkshire-born navigator: his early service, the survey of the St. Lawrence and Newfoundland, and the three great voyages to Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, the Antarctic and the north Pacific, ending in Hawaii in 1779. He draws on the official accounts and describes Cook’s dealings with the peoples he met.
A classic eighteenth-century biography of exploration’s most famous captain. Download the free EPUB.