Peter FitzSimons

James Cook

The story of the man who mapped the world

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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

Autorenporträt

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.