Captain Cook Explores the South Seas

Description

Sperry tells of the explorations and amazing achievements of the former shipyard apprentice who charted many of the navigation routes of the world. It is a breath-taking story of crossing the Antarctic Circle for the first time in history, of claiming New Zealand and Australia for the British Empire, of locating that 1000-mile labyrinth of coral known as the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and of discovering and naming countless islands in the South Pacific.