The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary.
by Innes, Hammond
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: brown binding with gilt vignette and spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's
- ISBN 10
- 0002214458
- ISBN 13
- 9780002214452
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
London:: Collins, 1978.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: brown binding with gilt vignette and spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Map endpapers. Description: Captain James Cook sails from Plymouth in the three-masted collier, Resolution, in search of the fabled North-West Passage. It is his third voyage of discovery and t his is the story he might have written. An imagined diary, full of detail and unlike Cook's journals -- which were official records and impersonal -- this is a highly personal and self-revealing account. Innes states, ''In presenting it as Cook's own writing, I am conscious of having taken a great liberty, but it has been done as a labour of love and in an honest endeavour to set right the impression left by the official Journals. Cook was neither a dull man, nor unemotional and inhuman. He could not have been, or he would not have achieved what he did.''
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 066787
- Title
- The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary.
- Author
- Innes, Hammond
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: brown binding with gilt vignette and spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002214458
- ISBN 13
- 9780002214452
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1978.
- Pages
- 254 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (8.5 inches tall)
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