Author:James Cook

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James Cook (1728–1779)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery. An 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.

James Cook

Works

• Captain Cook's Journal, First Voyage
• James Cook diaries
• Observations made, by appointment of the Royal Society, at King George’s Island in the South Seas, 1771
• A Voyage Towards the South pole and Around the World

Letters

• Letter to the Commissioners of the Victualling concerning the purchase of provisions for the Endeavour
• Letter requesting supplies
• Letter to John Walker[1]

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 (first edition; vol i & third edition; vol iv)
• The life of captain James Cook (1788), by Andrew Kippis
• The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World (1821) (vol I vol II vol III vol IV vol V vol VIvol VII)
• A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook (1832), by Andrew Kippis (vol i)
• 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 (Vol. I, Vol. II)

Documents

• Lieutenant's certificate for James Cook
• The will of James Cook

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

Works by Cook's colleagues

• A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship, the Endeavour by Sydney Parkinson
• The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks of Joseph Banks [2]
• Letter suggesting Cook's membership in The Royal Society[3], 1775

Works about Cook

• The life of captain James Cook the circumnavigator (1907), by Arthur Kitson (PG & A.org)
• Cook, James entry in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• Cook, James entry in New Student's Reference Work