Captain Cook rediscovered voyaging to the icy latitudes
"Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to orient Captain James Cook’s career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions....
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Vancouver, Toronto
UBC Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to orient Captain James Cook’s career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accomplishments of the Australasian first voyage but focuses on the second- and third-voyage discovery missions in the extreme latitudes, where Cook pioneered the science of iceberg and icepack formation. A truly modern appraisal of early polar science, Captain Cook Rediscovered resonates in the climate change era."-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 412-416 |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 434 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 077486222X 0-7748-6222-X 9780774862226 978-0-7748-6222-6 |