Author: Hammond Innes
Title: The Last Voyage: Captain Cook&Apos;S Lost Diary
Description: London, Collins, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this fictionalised account of Captain Cook's third and last voyage. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper. With coloured maps to the endpapers.An immersive imagined diary of Captain James Cook's last voyage from 1776-1779, as he might have told it. British novelist Hammond Innes became increasingly fascinated by Cook's journals and therefore created this work to show the explorer as he believes him to have been.  In the original cloth binding. In the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is lightly sunned to the spine and minor edge wear. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: The Last Voyage Hammond Innes Historical Fiction Captain Cook Hammond Innes None


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