Captain James Cook
1728–1779
(Person)
Naval officer, cartographer, navigator, explorer.
Genealogy
Spouses: Elizabeth Cook
Works by this Author in Our Collection
Subject of Texts
- Captain Cook and Captain Bligh
- Cook the Man
- Cook the Navigator
- Cook the Writer
- Eighteenth Century Science and the Voyages of Discovery
- On the Character of Captain James Cook
- Some Problems of Cook’s Biographer
- Some Problems of Editing Cook’s Journals
- The Death Of Captain Cook
- The Life of Captain James Cook
Mentioned in
- A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas
- [comprehending the occurences that happened from the ship's departure from England to its arrival in the South Seas]
- [copyright statement]
- Explantaroy Remarks on the Preface to Sydney Parkinson's Journal of a Voyage to the South - Seas
- Remarks on the Otaheitean Language
- A Vocabulary of the Language of the Natives of the Island of savoo
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
- An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. [Vol. II]
- An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology
- Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands
- A year among the Maoris: study of their arts and customs
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- Botanical Discovery in New Zealand: The Visiting Botanists
- Chaplains
- Discoverers of the Cook Islands and the Names They Gave
- Earliest New Zealand
- Exotic Intruders
- Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia
- From Tasman To Marsden.
- Futurity and Epic: William Golder’s ‘The New Zealand Survey’ (1867) and the formation of British New Zealand
- Hawaiki: The Original Home of the Maori; with a Sketch of Polynesian History
- Historical Records of New Zealand
- State and Condition of his Majesty’s bark Endeavour, Lieutenant
- Captain Cook To Captain Furneaux
- Captain Cook To Captain Furneaux
- Captain Cook to Captain Furneaux
- Captain Cook to Captain Furneaux
- Captain Cook’s Secret Instructions.*
- Original list. — Endeavour bark’s complement, 70 men, began wages 25 May, 1768
- Historical Records of New Zealand Vol. II.
- Lieutenant Cook*to Secretary Stephens
- The Lords of the Admiralty to Lieutenant Cook
- [Enclosure.] — Lieutenant Cook to The Viceroy of Brazil
- [Enclosure.] — The Viceroy to Lieutenant Cook
- [Enclosure.]
- [Enclosure.] — The Viceroy to Lieutenant Cook
- [Enclosure.] — Lieutenant Cook to The Viceroy
- [Enclosure.] — The Viceroy to Lieutenant Cook
- [Enclosure.] — Lieutenant Cook to The Viceroy
- [Enclosure.] — The Viceroy to Lieutenant Cook
- [Enclosure.] — Lieutenant Cook to The Viceroy
- James Cook to John Walker. †
- Captain Cook to Secretary Stephens
- Captain Cook to Captain Furneaux. — By Capt. James Cook, &c
- Captain Cook to Captain Furneaux. — By Captain James Cook, command'r of his Majesty's sloop — Resolution
- Captain Cook to Lieutenant Cooper. — By Captain James Cook, commander of his Majesty's sloop — Resolution
- Captain Cook to Captain Furneaux
- Captain Cook to Daniel Clark. — By Captain James Cook, commander of his Majesty's sloop — Resolution
- Captain Cook to W. Carr. — By Captain James Cook, commander of his Majesty's sloop — Resolution
- Captain Cook to Captain Furneaux. — By Capt. James Cook, &c
- [Enclosure.] — Captain Cook to Surgeons
- [Enclosure.] — Surgeons' Report on Lieutenant Shank
- [Enclosure.] — Captain Cook to Lieutenant Kemp
- [Enclosure.] — Captain Cook to Lieutenant Burney.*
- Captain Cook to Captain Furneaux. — By Capt. James Cook, &c
- [Enclosure.]
- [Enclosure.]
- An account of the flowing of the tides in the South Sea, as — observed on board his Majesty's bark Endeavour, by Lieu- — tenant J. Cook, commander, in a letter to Nevil Maskelyne, — Astronomer Royal and F.R.S. — Mile End, 5 February, 1772. —
- [preamble]
- Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter III — Cook's Historic Landfall at Poverty Bay
- [section]
- The de la Rochette Chart
- British Admiralty Comment
- Modern Portuguese and Spanish Viewpoints
- [section]
- “Land Ahoy!”
- A Strange Misconception
- First Glimpse of Poverty Bay
- Natives Mistake Ship for a Bird
- The First Landing
- Cook's Secret Orders
- Notes
- [section]
- Why the Marines were Landed
- Cook Takes a Risk
- Flag Incident in Poverty Bay
- A Regrettable Attack
- Notes
- [section]
- An Awkward Situation
- “Endeavour” in Peril
- Notes
- [section]
- Cordial Reception at Anaura Bay
- Notes
- [section]
- “Left an Inscription”
- “A Second Paradise”
- Ropata's Version of Traditions
- Gifts Made at Tolaga Bay
- “Adventure's” Double Visit to Tolaga Bay in 1773
- Notes
- [section]
- Tall Story of Lengthy Journey
- [section]
- Convicts Kidnap Women
- Invaders Resort to Strategy
- [section]
- Did Cook Leave Potatoes on the East Coast?
- French Vessel at Tolaga Bay in 1827
- Notes
- Poverty Bay in 1831
- [section]
- “Billy” Brown: Kahutia's Pakeha
- Note
- Woman Who Saw Captain Cook
- William Stewart, The Sea Rover — Adventurous Career Ends in Poverty Bay
- History and traditions of the Maoris of the West Coast, North Island of New Zealand, prior to 1840
- History of New Zealand
- Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.
- CHARLES DARWIN'S JOURNAL — DURING THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. "BEAGLE" — ROUND THE WORLD — CHAPTER I. — ST. JAGO—CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS
- CHAPTER VIII. — BANDA ORIENTAL AND PATAGONIA. —
- CHAPTER X. — TIERRA DEL FUEGO. —
- CHAPTER XI. — STRAIT OF MAGELLAN.—CLIMATE OF THE SOUTHERN COASTS. —
- CHAPTER XVIII. — TAHITI AND NEW ZEALAND. —
- CHAPTER XIX. — AUSTRALIA. —
- Kōtare 1998, Volume One, Number One
- Kōtare 1999, Volume Two, Number Two
- Kōtare 2000, Volume Three, Number Two
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’
- La Nouvelle-Zélande
- Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 1926
- Letters and Art in New Zealand
- Life in Feejee, or, Five Years among the Cannibals
- Making New Zealand vol 01 no 02: The Maori
- Manual of the New Zealand Flora.
- Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
- Index — Roman numerals indicate chapters; Arabic figures paragraphs
- Traces of a Fair-haired Race in the Other Groups
- But the most Fundamental Phase of a People's Culture — is its Social Order and its Relationship to Land; — and here there is evidence in polynesia not — merely of adaptation to environment, but of — Inter-mixture of Race
- Whence the Spiral in Tattooing?
- Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century:
- Moko; or Maori Tattooing
- Moko and Mokamokai — Chapter I — How Moko First Became Knows to Europeans
- Illustrations
- Chapter III — Moko Women
- Chapter X — Tradition, History, and Incidents of Mokamokai
- Chapter XI — Methods of Embalming
- Chapter XII — Traffic in Heads
- Chapter XIII — Mokoed Heads in Museums and Collections
- Index
- [frontispiece inserts]
- Mokomokai: Commercialization and Desacralization
- Mokomokai: Preserving the Past
- Murihiku: A History of the South Island of New Zealand and the Islands Adjacent and Lying to the South, from 1642 to 1835
- New Zealanders and Science
- New Zealand in the World
- New Zealand Plants and their Story
- Notes on the Ancient Dog of the New Zealanders
- Old Samoa or Flotsam and Jetsam from the Pacific Ocean
- Polynesian Voyagers. The Maori as a Deep-sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer
- Samoa Under the Sailing Gods
- Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niue and Tonga
- Smoked Heads
- Sport 17: Spring 1996
- Sport 26: Autumn 2001
- Sport 32: Summer 2004
- The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions: Tai-Nui. [Vol. V]
- The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions. Nga-Puhi [Vol. X, English]
- The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions. Nga-Puhi [Vol. X, Māori]
- The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
- [vegetation of Funafuti Atoll]
- History
- Postscript
- Adzes and Axes
- Pump Drill.*
- Rasp
- Spades
- Simple Fish-hooks
- Pearl Shell Bonito Hooks, "Bawonga."
- Canoes
- Cordage
- Flasks
- [XVII] — The Mollusca. — Part I.—Gasteropoda
- Solarium hybridum, Linne
- Ceeithium obeliscus, Bruguiere
- Cerithium asperum, Linne
- Cypæa scurra, Chemnitz
- Cypæa testudinaria, Linne
- Cypæa talpa, Linne
- Cypæa goodalli, Gray
- Cypæa mauritiana, Linne
- Cypæa mappa, Linne
- Cypæa moneta, Linne
- Cypæa tigris, Linne
- Cypæa vitellus, Linne
- Cypæa Poearia, Linne
- Cypæa helvola, Linne
- Cypæa Cicbrcula, Linne
- Cypæa nucleus, Linne
- Cypæa childreni, Gray
- Mitra episcopalis, Linne
- Mitra cucumerina, Lamarch
- Mitra Ferruginea, Lamarck
- Mitra Acuminata, Swainson
- Mitra Brunnea, Pease
- Mitra Limbifera, Lamarck
- Mitra litterata, Lamarck
- Turricula Variata, Reeve
- Turricula Nodosa, Swainson
- The Coming of the Maori
- The Discovery of New Zealand
- The Early Journals of Henry Williams
- The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771 [Volume One]
- The Exploration of New Zealand
- The Farmer in New Zealand
- The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
- The Genealogy of the Kings of Rarotonga and Mangaia as illustrating the colonisation of that island and the Hervey Group
- The Long White Cloud
- The Maori Situation
- The Maori - Volume I
- The Maori - Volume II
- The New Zealand Dental Services
- The New Zealand Survey
- The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)
- The Old Whaling Days
- The Origins of International Rivalry in Samoa: 1845–1884
- The Royal New Zealand Navy
- The Story Of Gate Pa, April 29th, 1864
- The War in New Zealand.
- Travels in New Zealand : with a map of the country
- Tuatara: Volume 13, Issue 3, November 1965
- Tuatara: Volume 21, Issues 1 and 2 (New Zealand Albatrosses and Petrels: an Identification Guide)
- Tuatara: Volume 22, Issue 3, February 1977
- Tuatara: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 1956
- Vikings of the Sunrise
- With the Lost Legion in New Zealand
- Women Speak Out! A Report of the Pacific Women's Conference. October 27 – November 2
- ‘A Curious Document’: Ta Moko as Evidence of Pre-European Textual Culture in New Zealand
Cited in
- A year among the Maoris: study of their arts and customs
- Mangaian Society
- The Life of Captain James Cook
- The Maori - Volume II
- Tuatara: Volume 13, Issue 3, November 1965
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The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Captain James Cook":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.