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'Stunning...divine' Stephen Fry
'A fabulous book, good enough to eat with a spoon! Marvellous' John Lloyd, creator of QI
'Perfect for the armchair adventurer ...
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses ...
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human ...
Five hundred years after the historic French seaport of Le Havre was established, TASCHEN presents a facsimile reproduction of Les premieres oeuvres de Jacques Devaulx ...
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the ...
Cook led a scientific expedition to
observe the transit of Venus in Tahiti, circumnavigated New Zealand and
established that it was two separate islands, and ...
For the past 225 years, the story of the Bounty mutiny has captured the public's imagination. The reasons for the mutiny have been intensely ...
Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in ...
What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How ...
The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. From Johnson's Dictionary to campaigns for liberty to schemes for measuring the dimensions of the solar system ...
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook ...
A beautifully re-imaged account of Captain Cook's great voyages through the Pacific.
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world ...
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of the race to the ...
