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Schooner to the Southern Oceans : the Captain James Cook bicentenary voyage, 1776-1976 by Gordon Cook is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Schooner to the Southern Oceans : the Captain James Cook bicentenary voyage, 1776-1976 about?
Gordon Cook set out from Plymouth with his wife Mary and their two very young children, Sue and Jon, to repeat the third and last voyage that Captain James Cook made in 1776. The bicentenaries of Captain Cook's first two voyages in 1963 and 1969 had both passed with little or nothing to celebrate them, despite huge fund-raising efforts. When both of these bicentenary events ended in failure, Gordon vowed to sail in his own ship and repeat Captain Cook's final voyage 200 years later in 1976. He d
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- Author
- Gordon Cook
- Publisher
- Troubador Publishing Ltd
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781848766648
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Travel, Biography, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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