The vivid, richly detailed story of the three great voyages of Cook -- and a superb portrait of the man. Thomas, a British anthropologist, plumbs the huge literature of Cook for anecdote and telling detail. These were the world-changing voyages that introduced whole new peoples and areas of the world to European thinkers and cartographers. Cook charted much of the Southern Hemisphere, including Pacific archipelagos, Australia, New Zealand and the Sub-Antarctic islands.  (PAC141, $18.95)