The Fatal Voyage Captain Cook's Last Great Journey

by Aughton, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781845114046
• ISBN10: 1845114043
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Summary

Peter Aughton has used letters, log records and the diaries of those involved in the voyage to tell an enthralling account of James Cook's last days at sea and reveal the extraordinary legacy he left behind. The Fatal Voyage is the story of Cook's final journey when he led his most dangerous and fabled expedition to search for the elusive Pacific entrance to the North West Passage. His journey goes from England to the Hawaiian archipelago on to the north west coast of America, Vancouver Island, and the northern coastline of Alaska.

Author Biography

Peter Aughton is a visiting lecturer at the University of the West of England and is the author of several acclaimed books, including Newton’s Apple, The Transit of Venus and two other books on Captain Cook, Endeavour and Resolution.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Beyond Recognition: Strikeand the Eye of the Abattoir

Fourth-Dimensional Medusa: Battleship Potemkinand the Construction of the Soviet Cinema Audience

Picture-Thinking: Octoberand the Debris of Philosophy

ExcavatingThe General Line: The Pleasures and Perils of Accumulation

Savage Thinking: The Sublime Surfaces of Eisenstein's Mexico

The Skeleton Dance: Animation, Terror and the Musical Comedy

Beyond Pleasure: Ivanand the 'Juncture of Beginning and End'

Conclusion: The Shape of Thinking

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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