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      Voyages of Captain Cook

      by Nicholas Thomas
      Published
      Nov 2004
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      512
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      Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their midst merely marked a further (if disastrous) twist in diverse histories already many centuries old. In this immensely enjoyable and absorbing book Cook's journeys are reimagined, attempting toleave behind (or master) our later preoccupations to let us see what Cook and his associates experienced and what the societies he encountered experienced - from the Beothuks of Newfoundland to the Tongans of the Friendly Islands.

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      First Edition Nov 2004 Penguin ISBN13 9780141002798 ISBN10 0141002794
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      Nov 2016 Zenith Press ISBN10 B01MXJ1NAG
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