Penguin Books Australia

I had the ambition to not only go as far as anyone had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go. —Lieutenant James Cook, 1771

The mighty Tasman Sea casts a spell on all who venture into it. Here, for the first time, is a book that tells its remarkable life story, from its early origins to the multi-layered human experience of it . . . whenever...

'The essential history . . . of the reason why men kept coming back to this frozen wasteland . . . deploys a lifetime of research and distinguished scholarship . . . Superb'  
BBC HISTORY

For centuries navigators dreamed of finding the Northwest Passage – the route over the top of North America that promised a short cut to the fabulous wealth of Asia, for anyone who managed to...