Author : Terence Barrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Nature
ISBN : WISC:89062174065
Captain Cook in Hawaii
Terence Barrow
Captain Cook In Hawaii
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Captain James Cook
Aldyth Morris
Author : Aldyth Morris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824816706
Captain James Cook by Aldyth Morris Pdf
Captain James Cook is perhaps best remembered as the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands. In his lifetime, however, Cook was noted for his skill as a cartographer and navigator and for his progressive ideas on the health and treatment of his crew. In this monodrama based on Cook's journals, the life of one of the great heroes of European exploration is revealed - from his humble beginnings as the son of an English farmer to his triumphant discoveries as the commander of the Royal Navy's Endeavour and Resolution. It was as captain of the Resolution that Cook met his death on the island of Hawai'i in 1779. As he lies dying, Cook reflects on his life and is haunted by faces from his near and distant past.
How "Natives" Think
Marshall Sahlins
Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226733715
How "Natives" Think by Marshall Sahlins Pdf
When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual life. In How "Natives" Think, Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures. In recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over the death and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawai'i Island in 1779. Did the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own god Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too worldly-wise to accept the foreigner as a god? Moreover, can a "non-native" scholar give voice to a "native" point of view? In his 1992 book The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Gananath Obeyesekere used this very issue to attack Sahlins's decades of scholarship on Hawaii. Accusing Sahlins of elementary mistakes of fact and logic, even of intentional distortion, Obeyesekere portrayed Sahlins as accepting a naive, enthnocentric idea of superiority of the white man over "natives"—Hawaiian and otherwise. Claiming that his own Sri Lankan heritage gave him privileged access to the Polynesian native perspective, Obeyesekere contended that Hawaiians were actually pragmatists too rational and sensible to mistake Cook for a god. Curiously then, as Sahlins shows, Obeyesekere turns eighteenth-century Hawaiians into twentieth-century modern Europeans, living up to the highest Western standards of "practical rationality." By contrast, Western scholars are turned into classic custom-bound "natives", endlessly repeating their ancestral traditions of the White man's superiority by insisting Cook was taken for a god. But this inverted ethnocentrism can only be supported, as Sahlins demonstrates, through wholesale fabrications of Hawaiian ethnography and history—not to mention Obeyesekere's sustained misrepresentations of Sahlins's own work. And in the end, although he claims to be speaking on behalf of the "natives," Obeyesekere, by substituting a home-made "rationality" for Hawaiian culture, systematically eliminates the voices of Hawaiian people from their own history. How "Natives" Think goes far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, it is a reaffirmation for understanding difference.
Captain Cook
Glyndwr Williams
Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843831007
Captain Cook by Glyndwr Williams Pdf
Essays reassess Cook's standing as a leading figure in eighteenth-century history, exploration and the advancement of science.
The Death of Captain Cook
Glyndwr Williams
Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674031946
The Death of Captain Cook by Glyndwr Williams Pdf
In a style that is more detective story than conventional biography, Williams explores the multiple narratives of Cook's death. In short, Williams examines the story of Cook's progress from obscurity to fame and, eventually, to infamy--a story that, until now, has never been fully told.
Captain Cook's Hawaii as Seen by His Artists
Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray Murray-Oliver
Author : Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray Murray-Oliver
Publisher : Wellington, N.Z. : Millwood Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art, British
ISBN : UCAL:B3171345
Captain Cook's Hawaii as Seen by His Artists by Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray Murray-Oliver Pdf
Captain Cook's Final Voyage
James K. Barnett,Henry Roberts
Author : James K. Barnett,Henry Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874223571
Captain Cook's Final Voyage by James K. Barnett,Henry Roberts Pdf
Maritime historian James K. Barnett discovered extraordinary journals and paintings of Captain James Cook's demanding final voyage languishing in Australian archives. Expedition artist John Webber and two young officers"Discovery" first lieutenant James Burney, and "Resolution" Master's Mate Henry Roberts--offer remarkable eyewitness accounts of initial European contact, the first reasonably accurate maps of North America's west coast, the earliest comprehensive report from the Bering Sea ice pack, and portrayals of the celebrated mariner's dramatic death at Kealakekua Bay. Particularly astonishing for depictions of landings along Hawaii, Vancouver Island, and Alaska, Barnett adds context and commentary to complete the story.
The Return of Lono
Elizabeth K. Bushnell,O. A. Bushnell
Author : Elizabeth K. Bushnell,O. A. Bushnell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1979-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0870229311
The Return of Lono by Elizabeth K. Bushnell,O. A. Bushnell Pdf
This story is a fictional reconstruction of the momentous visit to the island of Hawaii in 1779 by Captain James Cook and his company aboard H.M.S. Resolution and Discovery. The natives believed this first white visitor to be Lono, their long-awaited god of agriculture and the harvest. Realizing the benefits of being thought a god, Cook did nothing to dispel the misconception. Although most of his crew thoroughly enjoyed the pleasures offered by the island paradise, some men, including Ship's Master William Bligh (later captain of H.M.S. Bounty) and the American colonist John Ledyard, feared and resented the false position taken by their practical captain. In the quiet rebellion that followed, Captain Cook, a scientist and a man of reason, would not be persuaded by the convictions of his religious antagonist, who believed the mission doomed to failure because of his blasphemous acts. The accuracy of their predictions is left for the reader to decide. The story is told by Jonathan Forrest, a midshipman on Cook's flagship, the Resolution. Through his eyes are shown many scenes of shipboard and island life, the thoughts and actions of the ill-fated captain, and the events leading ultimately to the tragedy which affected the first Europeans to visit the Hawaiian Islands.
Life and Death of Captain James Cook as the Hawaiian God "Lono"
Lars-Benja Braasch
Author : Lars-Benja Braasch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640302253
Life and Death of Captain James Cook as the Hawaiian God "Lono" by Lars-Benja Braasch Pdf
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Constance, course: The Sunset State, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: On January 17th 1779, the HMS Resolution, under the command of Captain James Cook, and the HMS Discovery under the command of Captain Charles Clerke anchored for the first time in a shallow bay on the west of Hawaii, which the natives called Kealakekua Bay. Immediately, the ships were surrounded by a huge crowd of Indians, either swimming around them or circling them in canoes. Cook describes the situation in his journal: "I have no where in this Sea seen such a number of people assembled at one place, besides those in the Canoes all the Shore of the bay was covered with people and hundreds were swimming about the Ships like shoals of fish". Due to a lack of understanding the native's language, Cook and his crew had no chance of realizing that all those people had gathered not only to greet strangers from across the ocean, but to celebrate the arrival of their god Lono, who was believed to have sailed across the ocean in search of his wife "in time immemorial" and was due to return. In his last journal-entry Cook writes: "... to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the last, seemed, in every respect, to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean" [...]
Accidental Gods
Anna Della Subin
Author : Anna Della Subin
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250296887
Accidental Gods by Anna Della Subin Pdf
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain’s Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine—always men—have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of turbulence—civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions—they have much to teach us. In a revelatory history spanning five centuries, a cast of surprising deities helps to shed light on the thorny questions of how our modern concept of “religion” was invented; why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused by both oppressors and the oppressed. From nationalist uprisings in India to Nigerien spirit possession cults, Anna Della Subin explores how deification has been a means of defiance for colonized peoples. Conversely, we see how Columbus, Cortés, and other white explorers amplified stories of their godhood to justify their dominion over native peoples, setting into motion the currents of racism and exclusion that have plagued the New World ever since they touched its shores. At once deeply learned and delightfully antic, Accidental Gods offers an unusual keyhole through which to observe the creation of our modern world. It is that rare thing: a lyrical, entertaining work of ideas, one that marks the debut of a remarkable literary career.
Blue Latitudes
Tony Horwitz
Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429969574
Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz Pdf
In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century were the last great voyages of discovery. His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Artic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. He also relives Cook's adventures by following in the captain's wake to places such as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef to discover Cook's embattled legacy in the present day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of Cook's vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also explores Cook the man: an impoverished farmboy who broke through the barriers of his class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history. By turns harrowing and hilarious, insightful and entertaining, BLUE LATITUDES brings to life a man whose voyages helped create the 'global village' we know today.
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
Gananath Obeyesekere
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400843848
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook by Gananath Obeyesekere Pdf
Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a "savage" himself. In this new edition of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, the author addresses, in a lengthy afterword, Marshall Sahlins's 1994 book, How "Natives" Think, which was a direct response to this work.
The Voyages of Captain James Cook
James Cook,John Hawkesworth,Georg Forster,James King
Author : James Cook,John Hawkesworth,Georg Forster,James King
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780760351567
The Voyages of Captain James Cook by James Cook,John Hawkesworth,Georg Forster,James King Pdf
The first-ever illustrated account of the explorer and cartographer’s epic eighteenth-century Pacific voyages, complete with excerpts from his journals. This is history’s greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task completed, his ship, the HMS Endeavour, continued to comb the southern hemisphere for the imagined continent Terra Australis. The voyage lasted from 1768 to 1771, and upon Cook’s return to London, his journaled accounts of the expedition made him a celebrity. After that came two more voyages for Cook and his crew—followed by Cook’s murder by natives in Hawaii. The Voyages of Captain James Cook reveals Cook’s fascinating story through journal excerpts, illustrations, photography, and supplementary writings. During Cook’s career, he logged more than 200,000 miles—nearly the distance to the moon. And along the way, scientists and artists traveling with him documented exotic flora and fauna, untouched landscapes, indigenous peoples, and much more. In addition to the South Pacific, Cook’s voyages took him to South America, Antarctica, New Zealand, the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska, the Arctic Circle, Siberia, the East Indies, and the Indian Ocean. When he set out in 1768, more than one-third of the globe was unmapped. By the time Cook died in 1779, he had created charts so accurate that some were used into the 1990s. The Voyages of Captain James Cook is a handsome illustrated edition of Cook’s selected writings spanning his Pacific voyages, ending in 1779 with the delivery of his salted scalp and hands to his surviving crewmembers. It’s an enthralling read for anyone who appreciates history, science, art, and classic adventure.
Captain Cook
Frank McLynn
Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300172201
Captain Cook by Frank McLynn Pdf
This “thoroughly researched and sharply opinionated” biography presents a nuanced portrait of the renowned 18th century navigator (The Wall Street Journal). The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with bold adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent writers have viewed Cook through the lens of colonial exploitation, regarding him as a villain. While they raise important issues, many of these critical accounts overlook his major contributions to science, navigation and cartography. In Captain Cook, Frank McLynn re-creates the voyages that took the famous navigator from his native England to the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean. Although Cook died in a senseless, avoidable conflict with the people of Hawaii, McLynn illustrates that to the men with whom he served, Cook was master of the seas and nothing less than a titan. McLynn reveals Cook's place in history as a brave and brilliant yet tragically flawed man.
The Last Voyage of Captain Cook
John Ledyard
Author : John Ledyard
Publisher : National Geographic
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Russia
ISBN : UOM:39015060598284
The Last Voyage of Captain Cook by John Ledyard Pdf
Ledyard's Siberian journals recount a harrowing journey through Russia under the rule of Catherine the Great, while his diary from Alexandria and Cairo provides a brilliant and rare account of Egypt before Napoleon's invasion. Finally, Ledyard's correspondence sheds light on pre-revolutionary Paris and on his friendships with the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Joseph Banks. In his short life, John Ledyard traveled farther than any American had before."--Jacket.