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Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages ... In just over a decade he would add one third to the map of the known world.

THE consideration of Cook as the ‘physician’ rather than the astronomer, surveyor and explorer well deserves this pleasant story. It is the central theme, which the author is well qualified to ...