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James Cook: The Story behind The Man Who Mapped The World (Hardcover) $22.50 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $39 Spend) @ Amazon AU

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James Cook: The Story behind The Man Who Mapped The World (Hardcover) $22.50 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $39 Spend) @ Amazon AUAffiliate
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The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.

But who was the real James Cook?

This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were incredible feats of seamanship and navigation. Leading a crew of men into uncharted territories, Cook would face the best and worst of humanity as he took himself and his crew to the edge of the known world - and beyond.

With his masterful storytelling talent, Peter FitzSimons brings James Cook to life. Focusing on his most iconic expedition, the voyage of the Endeavour, where Cook first set foot on Australian and New Zealand soil, FitzSimons contrasts Cook against another figure who looms large in Australasian history: Joseph Banks, the aristocratic botanist. As they left England, Banks, a rich, famous playboy, was everything that Cook was not. The voyage tested Cook's character and would help define his legacy.

Now, 240 years after James Cook's death, FitzSimons reveals what kind of man James was at heart. His strengths, his weaknesses, his passions and pursuits, failures and successes.

JAMES COOK reveals the man behind the myth.

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  • jv on 15/12/2019 - 23:06
    +21

    Peter Fitzsimons… No thanks… Almost worth a neg just for that…

    • doobes on 15/12/2019 - 23:29
      +3

      my suspicions are confirmed.

      • [Deactivated] on 16/12/2019 - 12:31
        +1

        Lol. I thought I was the only one!

      • rokufan on 16/12/2019 - 16:30
        -1

        More reason to love him!

    • Lizard Spock on 16/12/2019 - 00:04
      +12

      It's a Cook book, it's a Cook book!

      • jv on 16/12/2019 - 00:06
        +3

        lol…

  • kev98 on 15/12/2019 - 23:12
    +12

    Lol bandana man. I’d like to see him wear that ridiculous head piece in some shady part of Los Angeles

    • Lizard Spock on 16/12/2019 - 00:02
      +4

      So much disrespect for Australia's first President. He, single handedly, wrote the declaration of dependence, while sailing on his Lord Sandwich all the way to Hawaii, only to be made into a sandwich.

      • Smigit on 16/12/2019 - 00:11
        +1

        I must have really under appreciated appreciated Peter Fitzsimons impact on Australia.

      • entropysbane on 16/12/2019 - 05:53
        +7

        Yes, pirate Pete, who has a team, of researchers, to do all, the hard work, for him. And who has, a deep, abiding love, for commas.

  • coxymla on 15/12/2019 - 23:36
    +3

    $5 at your local op shop or $2 at the book sale.

  • Garagesale on 16/12/2019 - 00:27
    +7

    rubbish book. buy one written by an actual historian and not a rehash rushed out for xmas

  • entropysbane on 16/12/2019 - 06:01
    +5

    You have to admire the business model.
    Come out with a new book before Christmas or Fathers Day. For this market it must be big, and be about Australian history, but blokier. And it must be big, did I mention that? At least they can prop a door open
    Bandana Man, the most unread best selling author in Australia.
    PS this only came out a few weeks ago and is discounted before Christmas?

    • quarrymaster on 16/12/2019 - 09:34
      -2

      Don’t think PF has any say in this.

  • mickeyjuiceman on 16/12/2019 - 06:58
    +6

    FitzSimons = BS

  • Ghos7 on 16/12/2019 - 09:53

    sailormanbad

    Does that pretty much sum it up?

    • rokufan on 16/12/2019 - 17:57
      +2

      I'm sure that's the narrative Fitzsimons had in mind. He then just had to fill in the pages.

  • bargain huntress on 16/12/2019 - 09:56

    has anyone read it?

    • CamM on 16/12/2019 - 10:17

      Lots of vitriol towards the author, but no actual reviews of the book.

      Full disclosure: I’ve never read any of his books, however some of my family and friends have and the feedback is always that they are generally quite entertaining reads. YMMV.

    • entropysbane on 16/12/2019 - 10:28
      +1

      these are intended to be bought as gifts. Most end up as door stops, not meant to be a history text.

    • rokufan on 16/12/2019 - 17:41
      +4

      He is known to be a bit loose with the facts, hence treat his historical books with caution.

  • Loki556 on 16/12/2019 - 11:02
    +2

    Oh no!
    Accidentally upvoted prior to seeing who the author is!
    How do I revoke the upvote?

    • CamM on 16/12/2019 - 11:28
      +1

      Go here and select “Revoke”

      • Loki556 on 16/12/2019 - 12:42
        +1

        Cheers!

    • entropysbane on 16/12/2019 - 20:09

      I prefer my ahistorical stories of historical events a bit funnier. Like George MacDonald Fraser.

  • rokufan on 16/12/2019 - 16:26
    +3

    Fitzsimons can't even be trusted with his own life stories, let alone a historical biography about a man that the cultural-left want to diminish.

    • bargain huntress on 16/12/2019 - 17:43

      what about his own life stories? intrigued

      • rokufan on 16/12/2019 - 17:52
        +5

        He recently told a self-serving yarn at some big function, about how years ago he tried to stop a drunk Mike Carlton from throwing wine and getting into a fist fight with a conservative journalist at a dinner. Fitzsimons made himself into the hero of the story. Problem was the other dozen or so diners who were at the table and the tables closeby, say it never happened the way Fitzsimons described, he fabricated parts of the story to flatter himself.

        • bargain huntress on 16/12/2019 - 18:01

          interesting. google says there is an andrew bolt blog (ironic) but it is behind a paywall

          https://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=HS…

          • rokufan on 16/12/2019 - 18:05
            +1

            @bargain huntress: Bolt was the one who confronted the drunk Carlton who made a bee-line for his table.

            • bargain huntress on 17/12/2019 - 00:24
              -1

              @rokufan: i see. bolt doesn't always seem necessarily reliable either…

              • rokufan on 17/12/2019 - 00:27
                +1

                @bargain huntress: It's not only hanging on Bolt's word. As I said above: "Problem was the other dozen or so diners who were at the table and the tables closeby, say it never happened the way Fitzsimons described". It was a media dinner, most of the diners were journalists/media personalities and their spouses. I've read and heard several different journos confirm Bolt's account. And they gave them at the time (and haven't changed their stories), which was well over a decade ago. Fitzsimons version is only a recent invention, one he has not even told before as far as I can tell.

                • bargain huntress on 17/12/2019 - 03:22
                  +1

                  @rokufan: hmmm. the only options i can think of - in order to alter a story with that many witnesses, you'd have to either; have a very unusual way of perceiving the world, have a memory unusually susceptible to delusion, or have a lack of shame?

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