Captian James Cook, RN (Royal Navy), FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society), (1728-1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and what is now Hawaii, as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. This audiobook edition of Lang"s biography is interspersed with selections from the journals of Captain Cook, offering the listener an additional first-person perspective on the life of this world explorer.