Good solid book on the voyages on Captain Cook, who was considered one of the greatest if not the greatest traveler of all time. I think that had to do more on how long out to sea he did. I read Dugard's book on Columbus Final Voyage and just by chance got the The Training Ground The Mexican War (not knowing he wrote it) and really like that them, so I wanted to read some thing else of his. It was a good choice. There are about his 3 trips and his transformation as a person. Unfortunately his ego got the best of him, which lead to his Fall.

The only thing that I was disappointed with was the the last "leg" of his 1st trip wasn't in as much detail as the beginning of the trip and the other trips seemed to have a lot of missing time periods. This could have been because nothing was going on or just missing from history. I am not sure. But a good read.