Kitson traces Cook from his early years through service on H.M.S. Eagle, Pembroke and Northumberland, the surveying of Newfoundland and then the three great voyages: Tahiti and the Society Islands, the charting of New Zealand and Australia’s east coast, and on into the far South Pacific. This popular edition of 1912 condenses his fuller biography.
A careful, admiring life of the navigator, drawn from the journals and Admiralty papers. Download the free EPUB.