Author: GRAY, WILLIAM R.
Title: Voyages to Paradise - Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook
Description: Washington, National Geographic Society. 1981, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Gordon W. Gahan. A Fine copy with blind embossed armorial crest to front. Coloured pictorial dustjacket is complete and has some chipping to head and tail G+. The author recounts the journey with the photographer Gordon W. Gahan to retrace the life and travels of Cook beautifully illustrated throughout with colour photographs and maps in the text. The pair travelled for a year in nearly every type of conveyance from dug out canoe to island schooner. NOT BOOK CLUB 16. Fine/Good.

Keywords: Gordon W. Gahan


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