Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World

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By: B Richardson

256 pages, 25 illus

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press

Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World

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ISBN: 9780774811897 Hardback May 2005 Out of Print #153529

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This fascinating and informative account offers a new understanding of Captain Cook's voyages and how they affected Europe's world view. It will engage historians, geographers, ethnographers, Cook enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in epistemology or how the world was mapped.

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Brian Richardson is a graduate of the University of Victoria and received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawaii. He is currently a librarian at Windward Community College in Hawaii and is editing a collection of Hawaiian myths and legends.

Out of Print

By: B Richardson

256 pages, 25 illus

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press

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Longitude and Empire is cogently and quite brilliantly organized. In summarizing how Cook organized his narratives, Brian Richardson shows how our world view has been shaped by Cook's - a fascinating and well-illustrated argument. Cook and his narratives are the template for most if not all who followed, and as such, this critical assessment of Cook and the literature has importance beyond the man and his own explorations - this is an essential book for anyone interested in the general subject of Enlightenment exploration - and perhaps for all exploration that follows. - James Delgado, Director, Vancouver Maritime Museum"

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