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Very Good in Fair jacket. > Edition/Printing: First edition | Ex-library with name stamps to all edges, card pocket residue to FFEP, small label to FFEP. Pages clean & unmarked. Year 1979. 278 pp. > DJ Used-Very Good | > Language: English | > Size: 8vo | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 278pp/illus. end-paper maps. the two editors of this book have selected 11 papers that re-evaluate Cook's career and his achievements in seamanship and maritime discovery. The 11 essays are entitled as follows: (1) New Geographical Perspectives and the Emergence of the Romantic Imagination. (2) A Presiding Genius of Exploration: Banks, Cook, and Empire, 1767-1805. (3) Alexander Dalrymple and Captain Cook: The Creative Interplay of Two Careers. (4) Myth and Reality: James Cook and the Theoretical Geography of Northwest America. (5) Cook and the Nootka. (6) The Spanish Reaction to Cook's Third Voyage. (7) Cook's Reputation in Russia. (8) Medical Aspects and Consequences of Cook's Voyages. (9) Cook's Posthumous Reputation. (10) The Artistic Bequest of Captain Cook's Voyages. (11) Two Centuries' Perceptions of James Cook: George Forster to Beaglehole. To these narratives by Canadian, British, Australian, New Zealand and German experts are added thirty-one illustrations, a dozen maps and four tables. Clean.