TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robson,John
TI  - Captain Cook's war and peace: the Royal Navy years, 1755-1768 
SN  - 9781848320338
AV  - G246.C7 .R54
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Barnsley [England]
PB  - Seaforth Pub.
KW  - Cook, James,
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Royal Navy
KW  - Officers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
N1  - Author works at the University of Waikato; Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index; Captain Cook's war, 1755-1762 -- Joining the Royal Navy, 1755 -- HMS Eagle, 1755-1757 -- HMS Solebay, 1757 -- HMS Pembroke, 1757-1758 -- Louisbourg, 1758 -- Surveyor, 1758 -- Quebec, 1759 -- HMS Northumberland, 1759-1761 -- St John's, newfoundland, 1762 -- Captain Cook's peace, 1763-1768 -- Newfoundland, 1763 -- Northern peninsula, 1764 -- South coast of Newfoundland, 1765 -- South-west coast of Newfoundland, 1766 -- West coast of Newfoundland, 1767 -- HMB Endeavour, 1768
N2  - Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768? As this new book shows, by that date he had become supremely and uniquely qualified for the exacting tasks of exploration
ER  -