Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds - Couverture rigide

Gascoigne, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847250025 ISBN 13 : 9781847250025

Editeur : Hambledon Continuum, 2007

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Professor John Gascoigne was educated at the universities of Sydney, Princeton and Cambridge. He has taught in Papua New Guinea and since 1980 has been a member of the School of History, University of New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His five previous books and other publications have dealt with the impact of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment and include a two-volume study of Joseph Banks and his world. His most recent work is The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia (Cambridge, 2002). Shortlisted for the 2008 NSW Premier's History Prize.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer, but in many ways was also a representative of English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hambledon Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1847250025
• ISBN 13: 9781847250025
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304