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Gaines, Ann Graham

Captain Cook Explores the Pacific in World History

128 pp. | Enslow | April, 2002 | Library ISBN 0-7660-1823-7 $$20.95
(4) 4-6 In World History series. Based on substantial sources, the books in this series offer balanced appraisals of their subjects' contributions, as well as the controversies that their activities engendered (Cook's careful eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific; de Soto's aggressive search for gold in North America; and Columbus's explorations, also gold-driven, for Spain). Each book contains dark black-and-white period prints and a timeline. Bib., ind. [Review covers these titles: Captain Cook Explores the Pacific in World History, Hernando de Soto and the Spanish Search for Gold in World History, Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration in World History.]
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

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