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CAPTAIN JAMES COOK 
Series:   AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
Author:   Dana Walkens  
RRP:   $7.95
20% Off  $6.36
10+ Copy Price :  $6.36         
Format:   Paperback 
Type of Book:   Australian Information 
ISBN:   9781877009921
Category:   Australian History
Published:   29/07/2010
Status:   Out Of Print
This title is no longer in print and is not in stock. You may still order this book and while it is not available currently, you can register an order. If it reprints within 2 years we will automatically supply your order. After 2 years your backorder for Out of Print titles will be deleted, unless you advise us otherwise.


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Though Captain James Cook is often credited as being the man who discovered Australia, it is not necessarily accurate. There is evidence that the Chinese, Portuguese and English navigators sailed along various parts of the coastline of the Great Southland in earlier times but Cook was the first European to sail from south to north along the east coast and to chart it. He also claimed the continent for the British crown at Possession Island in 1770. There are a number of theories about the real reason that the British Admiralty may have chosen to send an expedition of discovery to the southern hemisphere but the orders given to Cook were that he was to witness and record the Transit of (the planet) Venus from Tahiti during June of 1769. Cook was a man ahead of his time. Not only was he a great navigator but also his humane methods of commanding his crew were unusual for the time and he received great loyalty and devotion to duty from his men as a result.



 

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