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The Resource Captain Cook : master of the seas, Frank McLynn

Captain Cook : master of the seas, Frank McLynn

Label
Captain Cook : master of the seas
Title
Captain Cook
Title remainder
master of the seas
Statement of responsibility
Frank McLynn
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Profiles the famous navigator, addresses the common colonialist misconceptions about the explorer and his death, and re-creates the voyages that took him from his native England to the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean
Member of
Biography type
individual biography
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
393426
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
McLynn, Frank
Dewey number
910.92
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
G420.C65
LC item number
M35 2011
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Cook, James
  • Explorers
  • Voyages around the world
  • Oceania
Target audience
adult
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
master of the seas
Label
Captain Cook : master of the seas, Frank McLynn
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-472) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Antarctica
  • Tongans and Maoris
  • Mastering the Pacific
  • Lost horizon : the great southern continent
  • The last voyage
  • Tahiti : the final phase
  • Quest for illusion : the Northwest Passage
  • Hawaiian nightmare
  • Tragedy on Kealakekua Beach
  • Conclusion
  • A Yorkshire apprenticeship
  • The Seven Years War
  • Charting Newfoundland
  • The challenge of the Pacific
  • First contacts with Tahiti
  • The Isle of Cythera
  • Peril in Australasia
  • Homeward bound
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xv, 490 pages
Isbn
9780300114218
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Lccn
2010036481
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (some color), maps
System control number
  • 659413198
  • (OCoLC)659413198
Label
Captain Cook : master of the seas, Frank McLynn
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-472) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Antarctica
  • Tongans and Maoris
  • Mastering the Pacific
  • Lost horizon : the great southern continent
  • The last voyage
  • Tahiti : the final phase
  • Quest for illusion : the Northwest Passage
  • Hawaiian nightmare
  • Tragedy on Kealakekua Beach
  • Conclusion
  • A Yorkshire apprenticeship
  • The Seven Years War
  • Charting Newfoundland
  • The challenge of the Pacific
  • First contacts with Tahiti
  • The Isle of Cythera
  • Peril in Australasia
  • Homeward bound
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xv, 490 pages
Isbn
9780300114218
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Lccn
2010036481
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (some color), maps
System control number
  • 659413198
  • (OCoLC)659413198

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