Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration and Empire

Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration and EmpireBritish Royal Navy Captain James Cooks voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geographic questions, and inspired some of the most influential images of the Pacific made by Europeans. Now readers can immerse themselves in the adventure through the collections of Londons National Maritime

a 1950 documentary short on the ten filmmakers blacklisted from Hollywood for their refusal to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee

from the jacket graphics and printing quality to superior LP mastering (direct from the master tapes) by Kevin Gray to superb 180 gm audiophile LP pressings by Record Technology Inc

edited by Philip Horne

This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death

My Love is one of the great Miklós Jancsó’s finest works

Every neighbourhood of Cameroon´s capital

Second Run presents a special Blu-ray edition of one of its most enduringly popular titles – Juraj Herz’s The Cremator

The Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s richest and most ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe

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captains of industry

Whether writing in a café or a train

charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers