Peter FitzSimons

Broschiertes Buch

James Cook

The story of the man who mapped the world

Beschreibung

Bestselling Australian author Peter FitzSimons reveals the real James Cook in this new biography.

Autor

Peter FitzSimons is Australia's bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 30 years he has also been a journalist and columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and the SunHerlad. He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including Kokoda, Ned Kelly and Gallipoli, as well as biographies of such notable Australians as Sir Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake and Nick Farr-Jones. His passion is to tell Australian stories of great men and women, of stirring events in Australian history. Peter grew up on a farm north of Sydney, went to boarding school in Sydney and attended Sydney University. An ex-Wallaby, he also lived for several years in rural France and Italy, playing rugby for regional clubs. He and his wife Lisa Wilkinson - journalist, magazine editor and currently co-presenter of TODAY on Channel 9 - have three children; they live in Sydney.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781472131409
• ISBN-10: 1472131401
• Artikelnr.: 59366129