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Title: Let us celebrate discoveries that did not happen
Review: The author did a most diligent job in charting the life of Captain Cook. He writes well and the prsentation can not be faulted. But, clearly, he is a great admirer of his subject and seemingly partial to him at times. Cook was more of a surveyor than a discoverer, and some of the heroics might be displaced. His third voyage shows that he was not stable enough mentally. Even his seafaring pales in comparison to his famous predecessors who achieved more with less. Think of the incredible yourney of one of his officers, William Bligh, in an open boat, without supplies, across 3'600 miles of ocean. And why was Cook always returning to Tahiti, even though it was out of his way? It seems to me that there are many questions yet to be answered, in an unbiased way.
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