He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration. Farther than Any Man does have a bit of an annoying habit of putting thoughts into people’s minds without support.

It is a high quality picture book where the illustrations say so much more than the words and can be a great source of discussion and inference with deep themes intertwined. And please do this by editing (and adding to) your question, not by answering my comment with another comment. But it remained to be seen just as an effort and not as something to help me get to know Captain Cook’s story better.Highly recommended for anyone interested in rich biographies, stories of adventures and discovery, and maritime books. This book is absent of criteria on the national curriculum, therefore it would be great to use for the children to adapt the book with national curriculum points. Highly recommended for those who love history told in a compelling way (I think guys especially enjoy this one)! We all understand that we cannot reverse time, yet most of us put in the fruitless effort in trying to re-live that "some moment" we so cherished in our hearts.

In James Cook geval is hij de grote ontdekker van wat er niet was (terra incognita) sinds hij op zoek was naar het zuidelijke continent wat uiteindelijk niet bestond.Today, places in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans still bear the names he gave them and places from Alaska to Australia bear his name not because he named them for himself but because England commemorated him that way. Title piece “Farther Away” documents Franzen’s pilgrimage to Alejandro Selkirk Island (where the real-life Robinson Crusoe was stranded) to experience solitude, find some rare birds, and scatter his friend David Foster Wallace’s ashes. Het boek zelf leest als een trein en ik las de laatste bladzijden net na de fantastische tentoonstelling over James Cook reizen in The British Library in augustus 2018.