Glyn Williams, Author Harvard University Press $19.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-674-03194-4
When it happened, the death of Captain Cook captivated the European imagination: murdered on a beach by Hawaiian natives, the popular story at the time was that he died defending himself form an unprovoked attack. In this stilted history, professor...
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Glyn Williams, Author, Glyndwr Williams, Author . Yale Univ. $29.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-300-09866-2
Although the 18th century was the "age of reason," wishful thinking may better characterize the spirit of the era's adventurers' pursuit of the chimerical Northwest Passage (a sea route from North America's northeast coast...
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Glyn Williams, Author, Glyndwr Williams, Author Viking Books $27.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-670-89197-9
In 1740, during England's war with Spain, Commodore George Anson set sail for the South Pacific with a squadron of six ships. He was to seize the legendary galleon that carried Spain's annual plunder from South America to Manila, but almost...
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