The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary

Innes, Hammond

ISBN 10: 0394505794 / ISBN 13: 9780394505794

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1979

A propos de cet article

1st US Edition/1st Printing thus. SIGNED by author on bookplate on second front free end page (signature only). Glue reside on rear inside board, rear end page and dj flap. foxing to page edges. $8.95 price on DJ flap. Also includes laid-in a photocopy of handwritten (initialed) thank you note from author, on his personal stationary, saying he has signed the bookplates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 002288

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary

Éditeur : Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Date d'édition : 1979

Reliure : Hard Cover

Etat : Very Good

Etat de la jaquette : Very Good +

Signé : Signed by Author

Edition : 1st Edition

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis :

Book by Innes Hammond

Book Description:

In THE LAST VOYAGE, Hammond Innes imagines the private journal that Captain James Cook might have kept on the voyage that ended in his death in 1779.

While trying to find a Northwest passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Cook's ship, the Resolution, was blocked by a massive ice wall along the Bering Strait. Cook successfully freed his ship, and planned another attempt for the following summer. Cook then returned to Hawaii, where he was killed by the islanders in a skirmish over a stolen boat.

"An account to be prized by the armchair salt who likes to hear the winds moan and the timbers creak -- but only as the logs in the fireplace split." (The Saturday Review)