The Pacific : in the wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill
Anastasios, Meaghan Wilson2018
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Total copies: 1
Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted - but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and America. In the wake of Cook, everything changed. Uncharted is the book of the documentary series of the same name, in which actor and raconteur Sam Neill takes a deeply personal, present-day voyage to map his own understanding of James Cook, Europe's greatest navigator, and the immense Pacific Ocean itself. Voyaging on a wide variety on vessels, from container ships to fishing trawlers and sailing boats, Sam crosses the length and breadth of the largest ocean in the world to experience for himself a contemporary journey in Cook's footsteps, engaging the past and present in both modern and ancient cultural practice and peoples.
Main title:
The Pacific : in the wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill / Meaghan Wilson Anastasios.
Author:
Anastasios, Meaghan Wilson, authorNeill, Sam, 1948-, writer of supplementary textual content
Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.©2018.
Collation:
xiv, 445 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 25 cm.
Notes:
TV tie-in.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781460756393 (hardback)9781460710364 (ebook)
Dewey class:
909.09823
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
601367