James Cook series by Graeme Lay (#01~3)
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Overview: Graeme Lay was born in Foxton, New Zealand, and grew up in coastal Taranaki, which imbued him with a lifelong love of the sea. After graduating from Victoria University of Wellington in 1967 he lived overseas for some years, then returned to New Zealand to live on Auckland’s North Shore. First published in 1978, he has written novels for adults and young adults, as well as collections of short stories and travel writing and several non-fiction works. Many of his books are set in the islands of the South Pacific. A past secretary of the Frank Sargeson Trust, he writes from his home in the marine suburb of Devonport. He is married to Gillian and they have three adult children.
Genre: Historical Fiction | New Zealand
#1 – The Secret Life of James Cook: A fictionalised account of Captain James Cook’s early life, THE SECRET LIFE OF JAMES COOK depicts an imaginative form Cook’s life and ambitions, his naval career in Canada and beyond, and his marriage to Elizabeth and their family life. Drawing on his deep knowledge of the South Pacific and Australasia, novelist Graeme Lay recreates the peerless navigator’s life up to, and including, his first circumnavigation of the world. In particular, Graeme examines the relationship between James and his equally remarkable wife, Elizabeth, the woman he married when he was 34 and she 21, and by whom he had six children, all born while he was away at sea. THE SECRET LIFE OF JAMES COOK also depicts an often-stormy relationship between the dashing and privileged naturalist, Joseph Banks, who accompanied Cook on his first world voyage.
#2 – James Cook’s New World: James continued to stare at the vast, impenetrable sheet of frozen water. Beyond it, and surprisingly bright, was a range of ice mountains whose summits reached up to and vanished into a wig of white cloud … ‘I believe,’ James said quietly, ‘that we are now closer to the South Pole than anyone who has sailed before us.’ The year is 1771. James Cook, recently returned from his first, epic world voyage, is promoted to captain and instructed to embark on a search for the last undiscovered landmass, the Great Unknown Southern Continent. It proves to be one of the longest and most perilous voyages ever undertaken. Like an 18th-century Ulysses, Cook drives himself and his men onward, traversing the entire South Pacific, putting into place the last pieces of Earth’s great jigsaw puzzle. And though it marks a personal triumph for Cook, his prolonged absence from his wife Elizabeth and their surviving children is marked by domestic tragedy and heartbreak.
#3 – James Cook’s Lost World: The epic conclusion to the fictional trilogy based on the life and expeditions of Captain James Cook. It seems that having discovered a new world, we have been doomed to then lose it. the year is 1775. Captain James Cook is forty-seven years old and the toast of the Admiralty, the Royal Society and the English public after his triumphant second world voyage. His wife, Elizabeth, pregnant with their sixth child, relishes the fact that her now-famous husband is home for good. He has been absent far too long. But James cannot resist the call of the sea. Offered the chance to discover a long-sought passage from the North Pacific to the North Atlantic, he accepts the challenge. Much against Elizabeth’s wishes, he sets sail for the Pacific, where destiny awaits on the shores of a distant tropical island. the stunning conclusion the trilogy that began with the Secret Life of James Cook and continued with James Cook’s New World.
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