A travel guide to Captain James Cook's New Zealand: Exploring significant locations from Cook's voyages of discovery

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This book depicts in words, maps and photographs, the places of special importance which Cook visited or witnessed during his journeys from 1769 until his last departure in 1777. The locations are vividly described as they are today, and as they were nearly 250 years ago. Fortuitously for Cook, and for today's traveller, these places are some of the most attractive destinations in New Zealand. This guide will point them out to the reader, illustrate their features and explain in detail their connections with the renowned English explorer.

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Critically acclaimed, award-winning and popular author Graeme Lay - A prolific writer of travel and James Cook aficionado (The Secret Life of James Cook (2013), James Cook's New World (2014) and James Cook's Lost World (2015), Graeme Lay received the Lilian Ida Smith Award, and was named 1998 Reviewer of the Year at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, now known as the Ockham New Zealand Book Award.