South Sea Argonaut: James Colnett and the Enlargement of the Pacific 1772-1803
- ISBN-10
- 1925984443
- ISBN-13
- 9781925984446
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-05-19
- Publisher
- Arden
- Author
- Granville Allen Mawer
Description
'Who is Colnett?' So asks Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's Far Side of the World. As an adventurous teenager, James Colnett had sailed with Cook in the Resolution. He later fought England's enemies in the American and French wars and devoted himself to 'enlarging the bounds of Navigation and Commerce'. The Pacific gave him ample scope.
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