JCU Library Guide - Captain James Cook
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Captain James Cook (1728-1779) Celebrated North Country Navigator
Captain James Cook was born in Marton, and is probably the most famous maritime explorer of the 18th century. His exploits in Canada and North West America, the islands of the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia and his incursions into waters of the Arctic and Antarctic are well recorded, particularly through journals, logs and pictures which were made during the voyages and today are preserved in museums, libraries and archives throughout the world. A more detailed summary of his life is available from the About JCU history page.
Internet Resources
Discover the story of Captain James Cook through the collections of The British Library. The site provides substantial information about his life including a timeline, a photo gallery divided into 6 historical periods, a complete family tree and further links to sites such as the Captain Cook Society, the National Maritime Museum and the Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
Map showing the three voyages of Captain James Cook, with the first version in red, second in green, and third in blue. The route of Cook's crew following his death is shown as a dashed blue line. By
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James Cook (part of the Discoverers web) provides numerous links to websites dealing with aspects of Cook's life and voyages.
South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800) is a comprehensive resource for James Cook’s first voyage of discovery of 1768-1771. It includes the full text of Cook’s Endeavour Journal, together with related books and journals and explanatory material.
Information on the Endeavour voyage and journals can also be found at Treasures from The National Library, and The Endeavour Project - a hypermedia edition of the Journals of James Cook's first Pacific voyage focusing on Tahiti, between 13 April and 6 July 1769.
If you are interested in reading Captain Cook’s Journal during the First Voyage Round the World or the biography The Life of James Cook by Arthur Kitson go to the Project Guthenburg Australian explorers web-pages to access both books online in full text.
You can also read the transcript of the ‘secret instructions’ given to James Cook by the British Admiralty before he set sail on the Endeavour.
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The Bark, Earl of Pembroke, later HMB Endeavour, leaving Whitby Harbour in 1768 by Thomas Luny
More Internet Resources
More hand-picked web sites can be found via the Open Directory and the Yahoo Directory.
You can find hundreds of other webpages mentioning Captain Cook via this Google search.
Library Resources
The James Cook University Library holds many books on the life and journeys of Captain James Cook. Some of these are listed below; for details of additional titles on James Cook search the library catalogue Tropicat.
The life of Captain James Cook
Hooker, J., Yeldham, P. (1987) Captain James Cook. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin.
820A HOO 1C CAP
Robson, J. (2004) The Captain Cook encyclopaedia. Milsons Point : Random House Australia
R 910.45092 COO/ROB
Mitchell Library (N.S.W.) (1968) Bibliography of Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., circumnavigator. New York: B. Franklin.
R 910.45092 COO/NEW
Blaney, Geoffery. (2008) Sea of dangers:Captain Cook and his rivals. Camberwell, Vic: Viking
910.92 BLA
Journals by Captain James Cook and his men
Cook, J., Reed, A. H. & Reed, A. W. (1969) Captain Cook in New Zealand : extracts from the journals of Captain James Cook, giving a full account in his own words of his adventures and discoveries in New Zealand. Wellington: Reed.
993.101 COO
Cook, J., Wharton, Sir W. J. L. (1968) Captain Cook's journal during his first voyage round the world, made in H. M. Bark 'Endeavour', 1768-71 : a literal transcription of the original mss ; with notes and introd. ed. by Captain W. J. L. Warton. Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia.
910.41 COO
Maps and charts
Robson, J. (2000) Captain Cook's world : maps of the life and voyages of James Cook R. N. Milsons Point, N.S.W.: Random House Australia.
910.92 COO/ROB
David, A., Joppien, R. & Smith B. (1988-1997) The charts & costal views of Captain Cook's voyages. London : Hakluyt Society in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
910.4 HAK T3
Artifacts, artistic work etc.
Mira, W. J. D. (1970) James Cook, his coins & medals : some contemporary numismatic aspects of the life and voyages of Captain James Cook. [Cronulla, N.S.W.]: Australian Numismatic Society.
737.2 MIR
Captain Cook : his artists; his voyages : the Daily Telegraph portfolio of original works by artists who sailed with Captain Cook. (1970) Sydney: Australian Consolidated Press
910.45022 CAP
Murray-Oliver, A. (1969) Captain Cook's artists in the Pacific, 1769-1779. Wellington: Avon Fine Prints.
910.45 MUR T2
Juvenile literature
Blackwood, A., Hook, R. (1986) Captain Cook. Howe: Wayland.
910.92 BLA (Curriculum)
Stewart, D. (2001) Captain Cook's Endeavour: resource material for teachers. Sydney: Australian National Maritime Museum.
910.45 STE (Curriculum)
Videos
McDonald, P., Wainburranga, P. F. (1988) Too many Captain Cooks. Canberra A.C.T.: Ronin Films.
994.0049915 TOO (Video)
Captain Cook: Just the facts
Encyclopaedias provide the most reliable first stop for basic facts on Captain Cook.
If you are a member of JCU, you can find out about Captain Cook in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online and in our Credo online collection of encyclopaedias and dictionaries.
Wikipedia also provides an overview of Captain Cook’s life
Journal Articles
If you are a member of JCU, you can view journal articles on Captain Cook in our Expanded Academic and ProQuest collections.
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Manuscript of James Cook’s Journal on the Endeavour
