This title recounts how the author, in searching for books on her lifelong hero <strong>Captain Cook</strong>, also uncovered information on a distant cousin of... » 

This title recounts how the author, in searching for books on her lifelong hero Captain Cook, also uncovered information on a distant cousin of hers - a George Collingridge, whose discovery that it was not Cook but the Portuguese who discovered Australia, brought about his own self-destruction. «