Author:James Cook

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James Cook
(1728–1779)

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English explorer, navigator and cartographer. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, accurately charting many islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. His most notable accomplishments were the British discovery and claiming of the east coast of Australia; the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands; and the first recorded circumnavigation and mapping of Newfoundland and New Zealand.

Works

Letters

Letter to the Commissioners of the Victualling concerning the purchase of provisions for the Endeavour
Letter requesting supplies
Letter to John Walker

Posthumous

An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the southern hemisphere (1775), by John Hawkesworth (external scans (multiple parts): first edition; vol i 1, third edition; vol iv 2)
The Original Astronomical Observations made in the course of a Voyage to the Northern Pacific Ocean, for the discovery of a North East or North West passage with William Bayly and James King (1782)
The life of captain James Cook (1788), by Andrew Kippis
The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World (1821) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook (1832), by Andrew Kippis (external scan)
The life, voyages, and discoveries, of captain James Cook (1837) (OCLC:41191074^{all editions} has the same printer)
The Voyages of Captain James Cook (1842), by William Smith (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Documents

Works by Cook's colleagues

Works about Cook

"Cook, James (1728-1779)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Cook, James," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
The life of captain James Cook the circumnavigator (1907), by Arthur Kitson Project Gutenberg (external scan)
"Cook, James," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Cook, James, Captain," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

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