ISBN: 9780295956541 - captain james cook and his times: a perspective (8 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. First American Edition (First Printing). Octavo; 278 pp. Hardcover bound in original cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, contemporary maps, navigational charts, and chapter bibliographical notes. A tight, sound former high school library copy with typical institutional markings (standard library stamps, card pocket or residue to endpapers, and catalog notation). The text block remains clean, tight, and completely free of interior marginalia or underlining. The original pictorial dust jacket is vibrant and complete with only mild shelf wear and edge rubbing, showing cleanly without external library label disfigurement. In Captain James Cook and His Times, editors Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston compile a landmark collection of scholarly essays marking the bicentenary of Captain Cook's landing on the Northwest Coast of North America. Contributing historians, ethnographers, and maritime scholars examine Cook's Pacific voyages from multiple perspectives, exploring eighteenth-century European geopolitical ambitions, maritime science, medical advancements in scurvy prevention, and the profound cultural impact of early European encounters on Indigenous Pacific and First Nations communities.…

hard cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. (1979). 278pp. Illustrated. With dust jacket, both in very good condition. S016.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.