Captain Cook by Alistair Maclean

Captain Cook

by Alistair Maclean

Doubleday & Company, 1972, [First Edition], colour frontispiece, colour and black and white photographs, illustrated end-papers (maps), hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, cancelled stamp on title page, tape residue on covers, and last page, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows minor edge and shelf wear (see photographs)

"Mr MacLean's achievement in this book is to present a graphic and lively account of this great explorer, and to describe in exciting detail his three amazing voyages and the adventures that befell him, his crews, and his ships in lands that until he sailed were in many cases unknown.  Cook's life was a resounding success and the story of it is a thrilling exemplification of his own description of himself as a man 'who had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go'."