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The wide wide sea : the final, fatal adventure of Captain James Cook /Hampton Sides. "On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed - beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population. What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds with his reputation?"--Provided by the publisher. 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.92

A Voyage towards the South Pole and round the world, performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution Cook, James 1777 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1772/1775"

A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world : performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution Cook, James 1777 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1772/1775"

position and extent of the west side of North America ... performed under the direction of Captains Cook Cook, James 1784 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"

Pacific Ocean for the discovery of a North East and North West Passage ... in His Majesty's ships the Resolution Cook, James, 1782 printing (London : printed by William Richardson). • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:52-13

A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world : performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution Cook, James 1777. • RARE-BOOK • 7 copies available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1772/1775"

Sailing with Cook : inside the private journal of James Burney RN /Suzanne Rickard ; foreword by Peter "Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1773. At the age of 22, James Burney (1750-1821) was promoted to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. Embarking on a great voyage he decided to keep a private journal written not for officialdom but for the delight and information of his family and friends. It was an aide-memoire, a record of his coming of age and the getting of wisdom. He claimed at the outset, 'my chief aim is your amusement'. Under the command of Captain James Cook and Captain Tobias Furneaux on the Adventure, Burney crossed the Antarctic Circle, he was one of the first Englishmen to walk on Tasmania's southern beaches, he endured raging seas and icy weather, he sailed to New Zealand's South Island and into its beautiful sounds, and then he sailed further north to explore the tropical waters of the islands and atolls of Polynesia. Burney witnessed death at sea from misadventure and scurvy, and he experienced the shocking death of ten shipmates at the hands of Maori warriors. He enjoyed cordial advances from Pacific Islanders and the friendship of Omai, a young Ra'iatean man who became the second Pacific Islander to visit Europe. Burney listened carefully to island music making (to please his musician father), witnessed religious ceremonies and observed Pacific Islanders' hierarchies. He noted the building of war canoes and absorbed ancient Pacific myths and lore of navigation. All these experiences expanded his world view. This was in addition to working with his captain on making charts, maintaining ship's discipline and the ship's log, and upholding naval traditions as expected of a young officer. Burney's early life and his extraordinary family and connections are contextualised to illuminate the story of the private journal. Burney's extensive naval career took him to North America, the Mediterranean, the African continent, to India and the East Indies, to China, Alaska and Hawaii. He sailed again with Cook on the third voyage of discovery in 1776 and witnessed Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, in 1779. Burney's naval career was hindered by his independent frame of mind, if not his republican sentiments and alleged insubordination. Despite setbacks and disappointments, he was eventually promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral on the Retired List in a belated recognition of his service and seniority. In enforced retirement, Burney commenced a second career as a writer on the topic of global marine exploration. He married late, had children and, for a time, he was embroiled in an unorthodox domestic arrangement. He criticised government expenditures, he wrote a series of scholarly papers for the Royal Society and was elected a Fellow, he was highly respected for his studies of exploration and navigation, and he maintained eclectic circles of friends drawn from musical, literary, dramatic, naval and political circles. He was an amiable friend to many, including his famous sister, the novelist Fanny Burney who championed James throughout her life. Burney died in 1821 leaving a legacy of writing, including this first private journal that opened up a new world to his friends, and now to us. This book features facsimile pages extracted from the private journal and is beautifully illustrated with maps, portraits, contemporary documents and artefacts, including information text boxes on people and issues."--Provided by the publisher. [2015] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.92

The Fatal impact : the invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 /Alan Moorhead Moorehead, Alan 1987 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 919.3/.6

Captain Cook's final voyage : the untold story from the journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts /edited by James K. Barnett ; foreword by Richard Neville ; introduction by Glyn Williams. "Maritime historian and researcher James K. Barnett transcribed two extraordinary but little-known journals from celebrated mariner Captain James Cook?s third exploratory expedition. Two young officers from the voyage offer remarkable eyewitness accounts at the time of initial European contact, the first reasonably accurate maps of North America's west coast, the earliest comprehensive report from the Bering Sea ice pack, and the dramatic story of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Particularly astonishing for accounts of landings along Hawaii, Vancouver Island, and Alaska, both journals have languished in Australian archives for over a century. Barnett adds context and commentary to complete the story. Commissioned by the British Admiralty, Cook set sail in July 1776 to confirm the outline of North America's Pacific coastline and to search for the elusive Northwest Passage. The expedition's two modest sailing ships, the Resolution and the Discovery, traveled to the South Seas, then chanced upon the Hawaiian Islands before reaching the Oregon coastline and the Arctic ice pack. Fatefully, the captain chose to winter in the Hawaiian archipelago, where he died in a skirmish. The crews made a second unsuccessful attempt to find the coveted route, then returned to England after more than four years at sea. James Burney was first lieutenant for the commander of the Discovery, Charles Clerke. He was active in many shore parties, prepared many of the voyage's charts, and witnessed Cook's death from the ship's deck. One of the few accounts from the consort vessel, his journal provides new details and important, thoughtful impressions of North and South Pacific people and places. Working under the notorious William Bligh, Henry Roberts was Master's Mate on the Resolution, performing essential hydrographic and cartographic tasks for the captain. He was only a few feet away when Cook was killed. His well-illustrated logbook includes coordinates, tables of routes, and records of weather at sea, but also lively accounts of shore excursions. The text is well-illustrated by the officers' maps and drawings, as well as a host of lavish images drawn by the expedition's official artist, John Webber."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"

Captain Bligh's portable nightmare : from the Bounty to safety 4162 miles across the pacific in a rowing boat This book aims to recount the details missing from the most common accounts of the mutiny on the Bounty and the fate of Captain Bligh. It focuses on the figure of the captain himself, beginning with his role as Master and Chief Navigator of the Resolution on Captain Cook's third and final voyage and his reaction to the death of Cook. There is a short account of events on the Bounty leading to the mutiny, but the majority of the book focuses on the voyage undertaken by Bligh and eighteen of his men in a longboat, from the site of the mutiny near Tofua in the Friendly Islands (Tonga) to their arrival in Jakarta, Indonesia, from where they journeyed back to England. The book includes maps of the routes taken by Cook in his final voyage, the Bounty and Bligh's longboat, as well as a list of the mutineers, as reported by Bligh. There is also a copy of the map made by Bligh of Cape York, northern Australia. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Bligh, William

Bligh : William Bligh in the South Seas /Anne Salmond. A biography of William Bligh (1754-1817). The author, an anthropologist, focuses on Bligh's three voyages in the South Seas and the impact of his encounters with the Pacific Islanders. Beginning with Bligh's voyage on the Resolution with Captain Cook (1776-80) during which Cook met his death, the author also examines Bligh's first breadfruit voyage on the Bounty (1787-89) during which the famous mutiny occured and resulted in Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in an open boat to Timor, and then, finally, his second breadfruit voyage on HMS Providence (1791-93). Detailed notes and a bibliography are provided. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BLIGH

South Sea Argonauts : James Colnett and the enlargement of the Pacific 1772-1803 /Granville Allen Mawer. "'Who is Colnett?' So asks Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's Far Side of the World. Who indeed. As an adventurous teenager, James Colnett had sailed with Cook in the Resolution. He later became a pioneer in the Pacific sea otter trade, nearly starting a war with Spain in the process. He attempted to force Japan and Korea to admit British trade, and failing that smuggled pelts into China. He conducted a whaling reconnaissance to the Galapagos Islands and transported convicts to New South Wales. One way or another, James Colnett managed to intersperse fighting his country's enemies in the American and French wars with thirteen years plying the South Seas. Seeing himself as a latter-day Argonaut, he reflected that his working life had been devoted to 'enlarging the bounds of Navigation and Commerce'. The Pacific gave him ample scope."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Captain Cook's computer : the life of William Wales, F.R.S. (1734-1798) /by Wendy Wales. A biography of William Wales FRS (1734-98). Wales, a mathematician and astronomer, was employed in 1765 by the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory Greenwich as a computer, calculating ephemerides that could be used to establish the longitude of a ship, for Maskelyne's Nautical Almanac. Wales was sent by the Royal Society to observe the transit of Venus in 1769 from Hudson Bay and as a result of his work there was invited to accompany Captain James Cook on his second voyage of discovery (1772-75) on HMS Resolution, tasked with testing Larcum Kendall's K1 chronometer. He became Master of the Royal Mathematical School, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1776, and served as Secretary of the Board of Longitude (1795-98). The author has drawn on Wales's own accounts of his work and travels and provides brief details of the lives of Wales's immediate family and genealogical charts. [2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WALES

Tuhituhi : William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific /Laurence Simmons. "Tuhituhi follows the geographical and chronological progress of Cook's voyage on the Resolution, for which William Hodges was hired as official artist, a 'landskip painter'. In the Pacific, painters like Hodges found themselves staring again and again in disbelief at landscapes and seascapes that stretched 18th-century conventions of painting (such as the picturesque, the sublime, and the beautiful). Each chapter of this book focuses on the close reading of a significant painting by Hodges of a South Pacific location and opens fresh theoretical perspectives on the representational problems raised by these early Pacific works. The final chapter considers the important influence of Hodges work on a series of paintings by the major twentieth-century New Zealand painter Colin McCahon."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 759.2

The art of Captain Cook's voyages / Rèudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith. Joppien, Rudiger, 1985-1988. • FOLIO • 11 copies available. 910/.92/4

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