The Exploration of the Pacific

A & C Black, 1975, Third Edition, reprint. Previous owner's name inside, some foxing, fading to spine and chipping to extremities of dustwrapper.

The author writes out of familiarity with the seas and lands where his voyagers pass, which books can never give and which the writer who has it need never obtrude. This familiarity enables him to bring out the achievement of Cook as I have never seen it brought out before. He is equally just and happy when he writes of Magellan or Tasman or Bougainville.