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You Wouldn't Want to Travel with Captain Cook!: A Voyage You'd Rather Not Make

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By Mark Bergin
Publisher Scholastic Library Publishing
You Wouldn't Want to Travel with Captain Cook!: A Voyage You'd Rather Not Make
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You are a 16yearold boy in the 18th Century. Your welltodo parents have convinced your cousin, James Cook, to take you on his ship as a cabin boy. Cooks mission is to plot the course of the planet Venus in the skies of Tahiti. Hes also looking for a new continent. It sounds pretty exciting, doesnt it? You will spend three years living on this ship. You will eat biscuits filled with worms, watch 41 of your shipmates die of disease and be attacked by islanders. By the end of this voyage you may have decided that, given the opportunity again, You Wouldnt Want to Travel With Captain Cook!

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2175 words2,175 words
32 pages32 pages
Lexile IG840LLexile IG840L
Grade 2 to 5Grade 2 to 5
Age 7-10Age 7-10
Published 2006Published 2006

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9780531124215

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