Captain Cook : explorations and reassessments /: explorations and reassessments. (2004)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Captain Cook : explorations and reassessments /: explorations and reassessments. (2004)
- Main Title:
- Captain Cook : explorations and reassessments
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Glyndwr Williams.
- Other Names:
- Williams, Glyndwr
- Contents:
- ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; Part I: The Years in England; 1. Cook's nursery: Whitby's eighteenth-century merchant fleet; 2. 'Remember me to my good friend Captain Walker': James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers; 3. James Cook and the Royal Society; Part II: The Pacific Voyages; 4. 'Notwithstanding our signs to the contrary': textuality and authority at the Endeavour River, June to August 1771; 5. Tute: the impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook; 6. Some thoughts on Native Hawaiian attitudes towards Captain Cook. 7. Captain Cook's command of knowledge and space: chronicles from Nootka SoundPart III: Captain Cook and his Contemporaries; 8. A comparison of the charts produced during the Pacific voyages of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook; 9. Successors and rivals to Cook: the French and the Spaniards; 10. Russian responses to the voyages of Captain Cook; Part IV: The Legacy of Captain Cook; 11. Redeeming memory: the martyrdoms of Captain James Cook and Reverend John Williams; 12. 'As befits our age, there are no more heroes': reassessing Captain Cook.
- Publisher Details:
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages), illustrations, maps
- Subjects:
- 910/.92 B
Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Adventurers & Explorers
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks
TRAVEL -- Budget
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism
TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds
TRAVEL -- Reference
TRAVEL -- Road Travel
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Adventure
Discovery and exploration, British
Explorers
Voyages around the world
Ontdekkingsreizen
Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- British
Great Britain
Oceania
Oceanië
Electronic books
Biography
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781846152528
1846152526 - Related ISBNs:
- 1843831007
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.424735
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