Cook
Subtitle: the extraordinary voyages of Captain James Cook
By: Nicholas Thomas.
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Cook, James, -- 1728-1779 -- Travel; Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century; Oceania -- Discovery and exploration
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Extraordinary voyages of Captain James Cook
Notes: Published simultaneously under the title: Discoveries : the voyages of Captain James Cook.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-444).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: History's man; title: 1. England's Atlantic; title: Cook's maps ; Banks's books; title: 2. To the South Sea; title: Punished Henry Stephens seaman ; As miserable a set of people as are this day upon Earth ; As favourable to our purpose as we could wish ; In order to seize upon the people ; He was laughed at by the Indians ; Alarming and I may say terrible circumstance ; Calamitous situation we are at present in ; My intentions certainly were not criminal; title: 3. Towards the South Pole; title: Inhospitable parts I am going to ; Mingling my tears with hers ; We are the innocent cause of this war ; Varieties of the human species ; Southern hemisphere sufficiently explored ; Now I am going to be confined; title: 4. To the North Pacific; title: I allow because I cannot prevent it ; Act that I cannot account for ; They may fear, but never love us ; Squalls and rain and so dark ; Dream that we could not reconcile ourselves to; title: Epilogue : Cook's afterlives.