Captain Cook - Maclean

1972 hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition, though book is ex-library. 192 pages. R45 postage in SA.  In the complete colourful dust jacket which depicts Cook's death in Hawaii painted by John Webber, the artist who acompanied Cook on his final voyage. "Mr. MacLean's achievement in this book is to present a graphic and lively account of this great explorer, and to describe in exciting detail his three amazing voyages and the adventures that befell him, his crews, and his ships in lands that until he sailed were in many cases unknown. Cook's life was a resounding success and the story of it is a thrilling exemplification of his own description of himself as a man 'who had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before, but as far as it was possible for man to go'.".