Table of Contents

Cook's Nursery: Whitby's Eighteenth-Century Merchant Fleet - Rosalin Barker
`Remember me to my good friend Captain Walker': James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers - Richard C Allen
James Cook and the Royal Society - Andrew Cook
`Notwithstanding our Signs to the Contrary': Textuality and Authority at the Endeavour River, June to August 1770 - Stuart Murray
Tute: the Impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook - Anne Salmond
Some Thoughts on Native Hawaiian Attitudes Towards Captain Cook - Pauline N King
Captain Cook's Command of Knowledge and Space: Chronicles from Nootka Sound - Daniel Clayton
A Comparison of the Charts produced during the Pacific Voyages of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook - John Robson
Successors and Rivals to Cook: the French and the Spaniards - Robin Inglis
Responses to Cook in Russia - Simon Werret
Redeeming Memory: the Martyrdoms of Captain James Cook and the Revd John Williams - Sujit Sivasundaram
`As befits our age there are no more heroes': reassessing Captain Cook - Glyndwr Williams
Retracing the Captain: `Extreme History', Hard Tack and Scurvy - Andrew Lambert

About the Author

Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians.

Reviews

Provides important information for those interested in Cook's life. [...] A welcome addition to a history that is still being constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed. [A book] for both the Cook scholar and the general reader.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*

A very good and timely summation of current research.
*BULLETIN OF THE PACIFIC CIRCLE*

This book succeeds admirably.
*HISTORY*

This book has something for everyone.
*CAPTAIN COOK SOCIETY*