约翰·罗布森写了两本关于库克船长的广受好评的书，现在他把注意力转向了库克著名的1768年太平洋探险之前的十年。这本新书调查了库克为什么被选为奋进号船长，以及他是如何成为独一无二的胜任这项艰巨任务的人。它展示了许多新的研究成果，考察了库克卓越的航海技能、测量、天文和制图技能，以及他在魁北克围攻中的行动。库克学者和纸上谈兵的探险家都会欣赏这项重要的新研究。
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Captain Cook’s War and Peace: The Royal Navy Years 1755-1768
The author of two critically acclaimed books on Captain Cook, John Robson has now turned his attention to the decade leading up to Cook’s famous 1768 expedition to the Pacific. This new book investigates why Cook was chosen to captain Endeavor and how he became uniquely qualified for the exacting tasks of exploration. Displaying much new research, it examines Cook’s remarkable seamanship qualities and his surveying, astronomical, and cartographic skills, as well as his actions at the siege of Quebec. Cook scholars and armchair explorers alike will appreciate this important new study.
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