- Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
- Year: 2008
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 230x154mm
- Condition: New - Very Good
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781847252098
- Product code: 537747
Captain Cook
Voyager Between Worlds
John Gascoigne New Paperback Illustrated
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To explore the interaction between James Cook’s world and that of the South Pacific, John Gascoigne begins with a recreation of the future captain’s Yorkshire homeland. He then looks in more detail at the cultural encounter between Cook and the peoples of the Pacific, discussing trade, war, politics, religion, sex and death to assess how each side interpreted the beliefs of the other. Slightly off-mint.
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Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Gascoigne details what happened in Cook's voyages when he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the world of the peoples of the South Pacific, the gulf between the two cultures was not nearly as vast as it was a century later, when ships made of metal and powered by steam were able to expand and enforce European Empires.In their different ways both the English and the peoples of the Pacific had to battle the seas and its moods with timber vessels powered by sail and human muscle. Captain James Cook represented - in those places to which he voyaged - English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought and cultures. John Gascoigne explores what happened when the two systems met, and how each side interpreted the other in terms of their own beliefs and experiences.
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To explore the interaction between James Cook’s world and that of the South Pacific, John Gascoigne begins with a recreation of the future captain’s Yorkshire homeland. He then looks in more detail at the cultural encounter between Cook and the peoples of the Pacific, discussing trade, war, politics, religion, sex and death to assess how each side interpreted the beliefs of the other. <i>Slightly off-mint.</i>
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