The Life of Captain James Cook

The Life of Captain James Cook
Author: J. C. Beaglehole
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 828
Release: 1992-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780804720090

The culmination of the life work of the most distinguished historian of Pacific exploration, this lavishly illustrated biography places Cook in the context of his times and affirms his eminence in the history of maritime discovery.

The Life of Benjamin Banneker

The Life of Benjamin Banneker
Author: Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Revised and expanded in 1999 this definitive biography incorporates much new research undertaken since the book's first publication (Scribner's, 1972). Comments on the first edition:

Unchained Voices

Unchained Voices
Author: Vincent Carretta
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2003-12-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813190762

Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, capturing the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic--America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa--between 1760 and 1798.