- 1978 first edition, 254 pages
- Published by Collins, UK
- Hardcover with dust jacket, brown boards
- Good plus condition, minor wear, fading to dust jacket, small cross out on free front end paper.
Colour maps of Cooks 3 Voyages. Captain James Cook, RN, the great navigator, was killed in the Pacific 200 years ago, on 14 February 1779, aged 50. At that time he had explored further and for longer periods than any seaman before him. In three great voyages of discovery - the first two in search of the Southern Continent, the third probing the Arctic for a North-West Passage - he sailed more than 160,000 miles.
The Last Voyage is the story of that third expedition as Cook migh have told it. Unlike his Journals, which were offical records, largely impersonal, this is a highly personal and self-revealing account of a man stretched to the limit.
Hammond Innes writes ...'In presenting it as Cook's own writing, I am conscious of having taken a great liberty" he says. "But it has been done as a labour of love and in an honest endeavour to set right the impression left by the offical Journals. Cook was neither a dull man, not unemotional and inhuman. He could not have been, or he would not have achieved what he did"
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