CAPTAIN BLIGH & MISTER CHRISTIAN PB B FORMAT

In Cooks relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the worlds geography and its peoples. He was the linking figure between the grey specualtion of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the nineteenth century. Richard Houghs biograpahy is full of new insights and interpretations of one of the worlds greatest mariners.