Overview: James Cook -- Routes: Cook's three voyages -- Expeditions: Life onboard ship -- Into the unknown: Reasons for travel -- Helping hands: Scientific study -- Against all odds: People and places -- Distant travelers: Surviving nature -- New horizons: Lasting record -- Challenges: Remembering cook -- Discussion: For further discussion -- At that time: Major world events -- Explorer's legacy: Over the years -- Glossary -- For further study -- Index.
Summary:
Biography of the eighteenth-century British explorer and navigator who is famous for his three great voyages of exploration in the South Pacific Ocean, as well as for his attempt to find a Northwest passage across the North American continent.
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