Halfway through the book I was sick and tired of Captain Cook and his sailors. The story is so repetitive - visit island, visit bar, get drunk, ogle half-naked girls, get laid, repeat tomorrow at a different island. Admittedly this is probably exactly what they did but chapter after chapter of this ...
I knew very little about Captain James Cook, the late 18th century circumnavigator, going into the book which is kind of a shame considering all that he accomplished. My interest in fictional stories involving the British navy during the Napoleonic war, made the facts of Cook's career and voyages t...
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