Captain Cook's enduring claim to fame is that he redrew the map of the world in three extraordinary voyages over the Pacific, north and south. The news that reached London in 1780 of his death on a ...
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK: A HERO MADE AND UNMADE. By Glyn Williams. Harvard University Press. 208 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Tom Carter More than 600 years ago, the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer ...