James Cook

Standard Name: Cook, James
Used Form: Captain Cook

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Catherine Hutton
CH 's criticism of Captain Cook in this novel provoked controversy in the newspapers; it sounds from her report of this as if she had defended herself in print.
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
171-2
Textual Features Flora Shaw
This simple and direct work begins with an account of the early European exploration and colonization.
Shaw, Flora. The Story of Australia. H. Marshall and Son, 1897.
5, 17, 31, 32-5
Joseph Banks , a naturalist and member of James Cook 's first voyage to Australasia...
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS published an Elegy on Captain Cook (who was killed in February 1779).
Ashmun is incorrect regarding the month of Cook's death date.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
74n4
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Pearson
The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful...

Timeline

30 July 1768-12 June 1771: Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook made...

National or international item

30 July 1768-12 June 1771

Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook made his first circumnavigation of the world, bringing about huge advances in knowledge of global natural history.
Watkins, Tom H., and Cary Wolinsky. “Sir Joseph Banks”. National Geographic, Vol.
190
, No. 5, Nov. 1996, pp. 28-52.
28-52

3 June 1769: Captain James Cook, engaged in circumnavigating...

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3 June 1769

Captain James Cook , engaged in circumnavigating the world, was in Tahiti with his scientist companions to observe the transit of Venus: the passage of the planet across the disc of the sun. In...

6 July 1776: Captain James Cook began his third and last...

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6 July 1776

Captain James Cook began his third and last circumnavigation.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
924, 938
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
82

14 February 1779: Captain Cook was killed by natives at Karakakoa...

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14 February 1779

Captain Cook was killed by natives at Karakakoa Bay, Hawaii.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

18 March 1784: The Transportation Act reasserted (at least...

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18 March 1784

The Transportation Act reasserted (at least in theory) the British policy of sending convicts overseas as the best method for their punishment and reform.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
250-1, 265
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
54 (1984): 289, 292, 303

14 March 1790: Captain Bligh, who had hoped to emulate Captain...

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14 March 1790

Captain Bligh , who had hoped to emulate Captain Cook as an explorer in his ship the Bounty, landed in England after surviving the mutiny (27 April 1789) against his harsh discipline, which was led...

1806: Joseph Dufour of Paris, manufacturer of scenic...

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1806

Joseph Dufour of Paris, manufacturer of scenic panoramic wallpapers, aroused immense public interest with a set of wallpaper depicting The Voyages of Captain Cook.
Printing panoramic wallpaper was a complex process. Each colour...

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