The Life and Voyages of Captain James Cook

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Excerpt from The Life and Voyages of Captain James Cook: Selections, With Introductions and NotesJames Cook was born at Marton, in North York shire, ou October 27th, 1728. As a youth he was apprenticed to a shopkeeper in a sea-side village near Whitby, but ran away to sea when he was fourteen years old. For some years he served in a collier, but in 1755, when war broke out with France, he entered the Royal Navy, and remained in the service till his death in 1779.He spent some years Off the American coast, engaged in important surveying work, and during this time studied all things that might make him a better seaman and a capable officer. He had charge of the naval portion of the expedition that resulted in the capture of Quebec in 1759, and was recognized by his superiors as a man of great ability and value.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.