Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook

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James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was once in his teens. He then started an unusual rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would perpetually link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted brand new-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and as a substitute portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (now and then to a fault), intellect (though Cook was once routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness.
When Great Britain announced a major circumnavigation in 1768 — a mission cloaked in science, but aimed at the pursuit of world power — it came as a political surprise that James Cook was once given command. Cook’s surveying skills had contributed to the British victory over France in the Seven Years’ War in 1763, but no commoner had ever commanded a Royal Navy vessel. Endeavor‘s stunning three-year journey changed the face of brand new exploration, charting the vast Pacific waters, the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, and making landfall in Tahiti, Tierra del Fuego, and Rio de Janeiro.
After returning home a hero, Cook yearned to get back to sea. He soon took keep watch over of the Resolution and returned to his beloved Pacific, searching for the elusive Southern Continent. It was once on this commute that Cook’s taste for power became an obsession, and his legendary kindness to island natives became an expectation of worship — traits that would lead him first to greatness, then to catastrophe.
Full of action, lush description, and fascinating historical characters like King George III and Master William Bligh, Dugard’s gripping account of the life and gruesome demise of Capt. James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on traveling farther than any man.

Author	Martin Dugard

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