James Cook

Author : Martin Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743436397

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Farther Than Any Man by Martin Dugard Pdf

James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (at times to a fault), intellect (though Cook was routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness. When Great Britain announced a major circumnavigation in 1768 -- a mission cloaked in science, but aimed at the pursuit of world power -- it came as a political surprise that James Cook was given command. Cook's surveying skills had contributed to the British victory over France in the Seven Years' War in 1763, but no commoner had ever commanded a Royal Navy vessel. Endeavor's stunning three-year journey changed the face of modern exploration, charting the vast Pacific waters, the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, and making landfall in Tahiti, Tierra del Fuego, and Rio de Janeiro. After returning home a hero, Cook yearned to get back to sea. He soon took control of the Resolution and returned to his beloved Pacific, in search of the elusive Southern Continent. It was on this trip that Cook's taste for power became an obsession, and his legendary kindness to island natives became an expectation of worship -- traits that would lead him first to greatness, then to catastrophe. Full of action, lush description, and fascinating historical characters like King George III and Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and gruesome demise of Capt. James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on traveling farther than any man.

Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780733641282

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James Cook by Peter FitzSimons Pdf

The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were incredible feats of seamanship and navigation. Leading a crew of men into uncharted territories, Cook would face the best and worst of humanity as he took himself and his crew to the edge of the known world - and beyond. With his masterful storytelling talent, Peter FitzSimons brings the real James Cook to life. Focusing on his most iconic expedition, the voyage of the Endeavour, where Cook first set foot on Australian and New Zealand soil, FitzSimons contrasts Cook against another figure who looms large in Australasian history: Joseph Banks, the aristocratic botanist. As they left England, Banks, a rich, famous playboy, was everything that Cook was not. The voyage tested Cook's character and would help define his legacy. Now, 240 years after James Cook's death, FitzSimons reveals what kind of man James was at heart. His strengths, his weaknesses, his passions and pursuits, failures and successes. James Cook reveals the man behind the myth.

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429969574

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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.

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802714121

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Cook by Nicholas Thomas Pdf

An in-depth chronicle of Captain James Cook's three historic voyages recounts his expeditions charting the eastern Australian coast, exploring the northwest coast of North America, circumnavigating New Zealand, and discovering many Pacific islands, setting his accomplishments against the backdrop of the colonialism of his era.

Author : J. C. Beaglehole
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0804720096

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The Life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole Pdf

The culmination of the life work of the most distinguished historian of Pacific exploration, this lavishly illustrated biography places Cook in the context of his times and affirms his eminence in the history of maritime discovery.

Author : James Cook,John Hawkesworth,Georg Forster,James King
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780760351567

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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.

Author : Alice Te Punga Somerville
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781988587707

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Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook by Alice Te Punga Somerville Pdf

Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook, No. 29: With a Non-argument that’s Actually an Argument. Captain Cook? It’s all so very complex. I’m going to sit on the fence. (Whose fence? On whose land? Dividing what from what? You only have a fence when you fear something or when you’re trying to keep something in. Or, as a renovation show on TV informed me, when you want to upgrade your street appeal.) Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook’s global colonial legacy in this revealing and defiant BWB Text.

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1784
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : BSB:BSB10901447

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A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean by James Cook Pdf

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781513274447

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The Journals of Captain Cook by James Cook Pdf

Depicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored and reliable narrative of adventures spanning across the globe. The Journals of James Cook depict three of Captain James Cook’s most glorious expeditions, starting in 1768 and leading to Cook’s tragic death in 1779. Having ventured all over the Pacific, Cook encountered lands not yet charted by the British. Though his discoveries and maps inadvertently led to British colonization, Cook held a deep respect for the native people he encountered. He recorded their practices and wrote of them fondly. Cook even befriended some of the native people he encountered, including a Tahitian man who, after hearing of Cook’s homeland, wanted to visit it as well. Per the man’s request, Cook sailed him to Britain, where the man stayed until he and Cook sailed back to Tahiti three years later. After charting Australia, and the whole coast of New Zealand, Cook was involved in a plot to kidnap a Hawaiian monarch and ransom them in order to recover stolen property. He was killed during this expedition, leaving behind a legacy of a detailed description of the Pacific Ocean and its coasts. James Cook’s expeditions around the world and his detailed and innovative work as a cartographer inspired advancements in scientific, medical, historical and geological fields. His influence has also reached the literary world, inspiring novel series and characters, including the infamous Captain Hook. Exuding ambition, courage, and confidence, The Journals of James Cook provide a privileged peak into the travels and accomplishments of an adventurous, and invaluable man. Packed with wonder but free of imperialistic arrogance, The Journals of James Cook serve as a valuable an intriguing primary source of a time when places in the world were yet to be mapped. Now presented in an easy-to-read font and redesigned with a stunning new cover, James Cook’ The Journals of James Cook is accommodating to contemporary readers, providing a fresh version of the esteemed literary work while preserving its wonders and adventures.

Author : David L. Nicandri
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774862257

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Captain Cook Rediscovered by David L. Nicandri Pdf

Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame Captain James Cook’s career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accomplishments of the Australasian first voyage but focuses on the second- and third-voyage discovery missions in the extreme latitudes, where Cook pioneered the science of iceberg and icepack formation. A truly modern appraisal of early polar science, Captain Cook Rediscovered resonates in the climate change era.

Author : James Cook,Archibald Grenfell Price
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486227665

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The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779 by James Cook,Archibald Grenfell Price Pdf

Selections from Cook's journals of the first voyage (1768-1771) to Tahiti, New Zealand and Eastern Australia; second voyage (1772-1775) to the Antarctic and the Pacific; third voyage (1776-1780) to Hawaii, the north American coast; eye-witness accounts of Cook's death in Hawaii.

Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300172201

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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.

Author : Lisa Dalrymple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778717054

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Explore with James Cook by Lisa Dalrymple Pdf

Pack your bags-we're going on an incredible trip! Travel with the Great Explorers takes you on some of the most remarkable journeys of exploration. Discover where the explorers went, why they went there, how they got there, and what went right and wrong along the way. Getting his start on a coal ship in Britain, James Cook became one of the greatest navigators of all time. He sailed across the Pacific Ocean on three expeditions, claiming Australia and New Zealand for the British empire. Cook drew such accurate maps they were used for centuries. He sailed around the world not once but twice-and might have made it three times, if he had not been killed in a fight with the native people of Hawaii. By then, his place in history was already secure. Book jacket.

Author : R. A. Beales
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778724158

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James Cook by R. A. Beales Pdf

Discusses the explorations made by James Cook, his intricate maps which are still used today, and his journals which leave a lasting legacy.

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Oceania
ISBN : PRNC:32101015400201

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The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World by James Cook Pdf