Vanessa Collingridge - Captain Cook

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I FOUND A number of books particularly useful for my research and would recommend the works cited below to anyone wishing to read more about the subject. For those without access to the worlds libraries, the most comprehensive source of Cook journals, letters and related materials can be found in the five-volume collection by J.C. Beaglehole, while an essential companion would be John Robsons brilliant Cook story in maps.

Beaglehole, J.C. (ed) for the Hakluyt Society: The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery, Cambridge University Press, 195569 (four volumes)

Beaglehole, J.C.: The Life of Captain James Cook, Cambridge University Press, 1974

Robson, John: Captain Cooks World Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook R.N., Random House, New Zealand 2000

Books:

Beaglehole, J.C.: The Death of Captain Cook, Limited Edition for Alexander Turnbull Library, 1979

Collingridge, George: The Discovery of Australia A critical, documentary and historic investigation concerning the priority of discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the Endeavour, in the year 1770, Hayes Brothers, Sydney, 1895

Collingridge, George: The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea, William Brooks & Company, 1906 (reprinted as a facsimile version by Pan Books, 1982)

Edgell, Vice Admiral Sir John: Sea Surveys Britains Contribution to Hydrography, Longmans for The British Council, 1948

Estensen, Miriam: Discovery The Quest for the Great South Land, Conway Maritime Press, 1999

Frost, Alan & Williams, Glyndwr, (ed): From Terra Australis to Australia, O.U.P. Melbourne, 1988

Frost, Alan: The Voyage of the Endeavour Captain Cook and the Discovery of the Pacific, Allen & Unwin, 1998

Grant, Joy: Hethe-with-Adderbury the story of a Catholic Parish in Oxfordshire, Archdiocese of Birmingham Historical Commission, 2000

Herv, Roger (Transl: Dunmore, John): Chance Discovery of Australia and New Zealand by Portuguese and Spanish Navigators between 1521 and 1528, Dunmore Press, 1983

Hough, Richard: Captain James Cook a Biography, Coronet, 1995

Hunt, Julia: From Whitby to Wapping the Story of the early years of James Cook, Authentica, 1991

Kamakau, Samuel L.: Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, Revised Edition, Kamehameha Schools Press, Honolulu, 1992

McIntyre, Kenneth: The Secret Discovery of Australia, Souvenir Press, 1977

Nordyke, Eleanor C. & Mattison, James A.: Pacific Images Views from Captain Cooks Third Voyage, Hawaiian Historical Society, 1999

OSullivan, Dan: The Education of Captain Cook, for the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, 2000

Price, A. Grenfell (ed): The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, Dover Publications, 1971

Rae, Julia: Captain James Cook Endeavours, Stepney Historical Trust, 1997

Snowden, Keith: The Adventurous Captain Cook the Life and Voyages of James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., Castleden Publications, 1999

Spate, Oskar: The Spanish Lake, Croom Helm, 1979

Stamp, Tom and Cordelia: James Cook, Marine Scientist, Caedmon of Whitby Press, 1978

Whitfield, Peter: The Image of the World 20 Centuries of World Maps, The British Library, 1994

Williamson, J.: The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Argonaut Press, 1937

Wiseman, Ross: The Spanish Discovery of New Zealand in 1576, Discovery Press, 1996

Wood, G. Arnold: The Discovery of Australia, Revised by Beaglehole, Macmillan, 1969

Articles & Papers:

Bushnell, O.A.: Aftermath: Britons Responses to News of the Death of Captain James Cook, in The Hawaiian Journal of History, vol 25, 1991

Collingridge, George: Archives/Papers, held in the National Library of Australia and the Dixon Library, New South Wales, Australia.

Collingridge, Winsome: Lecture notes on George Collingridge, Ryde Historical Society, 1981 (personal communication)

Daws, Gavan: The Unlucky end of Lono, in Orientations, March 1976

Fisher, Susanna: The Organisation of Hydrographic Information for English Navigators Five Hundred Years of Sailing Directions and Charts, in the Journal of Navigation, vol 54, no. 2, May 2001

Fogg, G.E.: The Royal Society and the South Seas, in Notes and Records of the Royal Society, vol 55, no. 1, January 2001

Kane, Herb Kawainui: The Deification of Captain Cook, pamphlet from Hawaiian Historical Society, 10 Sept, 1994

Richards, Rhys: Rongotute, Stivers and Other Visitors to New Zealand Before Captain Cook, in The Journal of Polynesian Society, vol 102, no. 1, March 1993

Spate, Oskar: Archives/Papers, held in the National Library of Australia

The Proceedings of the Third Annual Pacific Islands Studies of Conference: Captain Cook and the Pacific Islands, Pacific Islands Program, University of Hawaii, 1978: 3

Digital Resources:

CD-ROM: National Library of Australia/National Maritime Museum (Australia): Endeavour Captain Cooks Journal, 176871

There is a vast array of websites I found useful. Along with the online catalogues of libraries, good starting points are:

Captain Cook Society Website: www.captaincooksociety.com For Eighteenth Century Resources: www.eserver.org/18th/ Discoverers Web: www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/ History of Cartography: www.ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/

In Memory

Of

Glennis Allison

&

William Caleb Gould

Who taught me the value of dreams.

IN THE FLAT light, it was hard to make out where the water ended and the sky began. The bay lay slumped like a drunk, wedged between an oil refinery and a disregarded shoreline. Graphite tankers littered the horizon while water trickled from the stony streams of the wasteland into the murky sea. Everything was grey; everything was soul-less.

This was Botany Bay, the first landing site of Lieutenant James Cook: explorer, mariner and navigator extraordinaire. Two hundred and thirty years ago, the piercing colours of nature had stopped his men in their tracks: everywhere was vibrant, green and lush with diaphanous streams, pink and purple shellfish, black people and strange animals. His men were breathless at the wonders of this alien landscape that unfurled before them. They paused here for seven days, inhaling the blend of woodsmoke from native fires and the intoxicating balm of damp, foreign earth, before pushing on up the eastern coast of this new land that would become Australia.

Two centuries on, would he even recognise the place? He had come in search of discovery: the Great Southern Continent, the provincia aurea, mythical land of golden promise. He didnt find it and later, by proving it didnt exist, he smashed the fantasy that had driven men for millennia. Instead, his discoveries founded a new colony for the Great British Empire where men would stamp their footprint on the land and create new myths and fantasies of their own, while the soil nurtured the dreams of the millions who followed.