The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas - Couverture souple

Ballantyne, R. M.

9781444460025: The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas

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ISBN 10 : 1444460021 ISBN 13 : 9781444460025

Editeur : ValdeBooks, 2026

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From a humble Yorkshire childhood to the far reaches of the Pacific, Captain James Cook’s life becomes an absorbing tale of courage, discipline, curiosity, and discovery. In The Cannibal Islands, R. M. Ballantyne retells Cook’s South Seas adventures with the brisk energy of a storyteller and the admiration of a biographer. The book follows Cook from his rise through the Royal Navy to his great voyages of exploration, where science, seamanship, and danger meet on unknown waters. Readers encounter Tierra del Fuego, coral islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, strange customs, fierce conflicts, and the unsettling realities of cannibalism as understood by nineteenth-century observers. Ballantyne presents Cook not merely as a daring explorer, but as a man of practical intelligence, self-command, and relentless purpose. Written for readers who enjoy adventure, history, and maritime exploration, this compact narrative captures the romance and peril of an age when maps were still incomplete and every landing could bring wonder or disaster. It is both a tribute to one of Britain’s greatest navigators and a vivid journey through the dramatic encounters, natural marvels, and tragic final voyage that shaped Cook’s enduring legend for generations of young and adult readers alike, still rich in historical fascination today.

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