
Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the world of the peoples of the South Pacific, the gulf between the two cultures was not nearly as vast as it was a century later, when ships made of metal and powered by steam were able to expand and enforce European Empires.In their different ways both the English and the peoples of the Pa...
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic; Reprint edition (June 10, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781847252098
ISBN-13: 978-1847252098
ASIN: 1847252095
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 3048745
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This well written book utilizes a completely fresh approach, in describing how the crews of Cook's Pacific voyages and the Pacific Islanders they encountered, viewed one another. These fascinating encounters are described in the realms of Worlds, Th...
o battle the seas and its moods with timber vessels powered by sail and human muscle. Captain James Cook represented - in those places to which he voyaged - English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought and cultures. John Gascoigne explores what happened when the two systems met, and how each side interpreted the other in terms of their own beliefs and experiences.