Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes

David L. Nicandri

Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Country
Canada
Published
14 November 2020
Pages
448
ISBN
9780774862226

Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes

David L. Nicandri

Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame 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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