Captain Cook RediscoveredCaptain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame Captain James Cooks career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. Recognizing that Cook sailed more miles in the high latitudes of all of the worlds oceans than in the tropical zone, this book gives due attention to his voyages