Captain Cook : explorations and reassessments /
In the more than two hundred years since his death, Cook's reputation has been much discussed, opinion ranging from celebration of his achievement to more subjective assessments of the long-term implications of his voyages in those countries of the Pacific which he visited.<BR> The thirte...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Suffolk :
Boydell & Brewer,
2004.
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| Series: | Regions and regionalism in history.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Cook's nursery : Whitby's eighteenth-century merchant fleet / Rosalin Barker
- 2. 'Remember me to my good friend Captain Walker' : James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers / Richard C. Allen
- 3. James Cook and the Royal Society / Andrew S. Cook
- 4. 'Notwithstanding our signs to the contrary' : textuality and authority at the Endeavour River, June to August 1771 / Stuart Murray
- 5. Tute : the impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook / Anne Salmond
- 6. Some thoughts on Native Hawaiian attitudes towards Captain Cook / Pauline Nawahineokala'i King
- 7. Captain Cook's command of knowledge and space : chronicles from Nootka Sound / Daniel Clayton.
