John Gascoigne: Captain Cook | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781847252098 | Captain Cook | John Gascoigne | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Beschreibung

Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. 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.

Über den Autor

John Gascoigne

Zusammenfassung

Author is Australian and focuses on the 'other' side of the meeting.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Maps
Abbreviations
Preface

1. Worlds
2. The Sea
3. Trade
4. War
5. Politics
6. Religion
7. Sex
8. Death

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781847252098
ISBN-10:	1847252095
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gascoigne, John
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	John Gascoigne
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.04.2008
Gewicht:	0,468 kg