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Captain James Cook
1728–1779
(Person)

Genealogy

Spouses: Elizabeth Cook

Subject of Texts

• Captain Cook and Captain Bligh
• Cook the Man
• Cook the Navigator
• Cook the Writer
• Eighteenth Century Science and the Voyages of Discovery
• On the Character of Captain James Cook
• Some Problems of Cook’s Biographer
• Some Problems of Editing Cook’s Journals
• The Death Of Captain Cook
• The Life of Captain James Cook

Mentioned in

• A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas
  • [comprehending the occurences that happened from the ship's departure from England to its arrival in the South Seas]
  • [copyright statement]
  • Explantaroy Remarks on the Preface to Sydney Parkinson's Journal of a Voyage to the South - Seas
  • Remarks on the Otaheitean Language
  • A Vocabulary of the Language of the Natives of the Island of savoo
• A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
  • [blurb]
  • Introduction
  • Index
• An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. [Vol. II]
  • [title page]
• An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology
  • Gaetano and Others
  • Bougainville
  • Cook
  • [preamble]
  • [preamble]
  • [preamble]
  • Lower Cook Group
  • [preamble]
  • [preamble]
  • [preamble]
• Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands
  • Introduction
  • Headdresses
  • Personal Adornment
  • Religion
  • Historical Reconstruction
• A year among the Maoris: study of their arts and customs
  • Bibliography
  • Foreword
  • Chapter I — Maori moko
  • Chapter IV — Cannibalism and Obsequies
  • Chapter VI — The Maori Pa or Citadel
  • Chapter XI — Daily Life
  • Chapter XIII — Origin of the Maori Race
• Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
  • [intro]
  • Science journal publishing
• Botanical Discovery in New Zealand: The Visiting Botanists
  • [introduction]
  • Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Solander — (Cook's First Voyage)
  • J. R. Forster and G. Forster — (Cook's Second Voyage)
• Chaplains
  • Chaplains in the Royal New Zealand Navy, 1939–45
• Discoverers of the Cook Islands and the Names They Gave
  • Introduction
  • 22. First European Discoveries
• Earliest New Zealand
  • Chapter XI
• Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia
  • James Cook's First Voyage
  • Summary
• From Tasman To Marsden.
  • Preface
  • Chapter II. — Cook on the East Coast, 1769
  • Chapter IV. — Cook Completes his Survey, 1769 and 1770
  • 1. Furneaux Visits Tolaga Bay, 1773
  • Personal Index
• Hawaiki: The Original Home of the Maori; with a Sketch of Polynesian History
  • Chapter I. The Polynesian Race and its Traditions
  • Hawaiki
  • Wawau
  • Sojourn in Eastern Polynesia
• Historical Records of New Zealand
  • State and Condition of his Majesty’s bark Endeavour, Lieutenant
  • Captain Cook To Captain Furneaux
  • Captain Cook To Captain Furneaux
  • Captain Cook to Captain Furneaux
  • Captain Cook to Captain Furneaux
  • Captain Cook’s Secret Instructions.*
  • Original list. — Endeavour bark’s complement, 70 men, began wages 25 May, 1768
• Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter III — Cook's Historic Landfall at Poverty Bay
  • [section]
  • The de la Rochette Chart
  • British Admiralty Comment
  • Modern Portuguese and Spanish Viewpoints
  • [section]
  • “Land Ahoy!”
  • A Strange Misconception
  • First Glimpse of Poverty Bay
  • Natives Mistake Ship for a Bird
  • The First Landing
  • Cook's Secret Orders
  • Notes
  • [section]
  • Why the Marines were Landed
  • Cook Takes a Risk
  • Flag Incident in Poverty Bay
  • A Regrettable Attack
  • Notes
  • [section]
  • An Awkward Situation
  • “Endeavour” in Peril
  • Notes
  • [section]
  • Cordial Reception at Anaura Bay
  • Notes
  • [section]
  • “Left an Inscription”
  • “A Second Paradise”
  • Ropata's Version of Traditions
  • Gifts Made at Tolaga Bay
  • “Adventure's” Double Visit to Tolaga Bay in 1773
  • Notes
  • [section]
  • Tall Story of Lengthy Journey
  • [section]
  • Convicts Kidnap Women
  • Invaders Resort to Strategy
  • [section]
  • Did Cook Leave Potatoes on the East Coast?
  • French Vessel at Tolaga Bay in 1827
  • Notes
  • Poverty Bay in 1831
  • [section]
  • “Billy” Brown: Kahutia's Pakeha
  • Note
  • Woman Who Saw Captain Cook
  • William Stewart, The Sea Rover — Adventurous Career Ends in Poverty Bay
• History and traditions of the Maoris of the West Coast, North Island of New Zealand, prior to 1840
  • The capture of the rewarewa pa by A Taua of the Taranaki Tribe. — 1805-10
  • Captain D'urville's Vistt to Tasman Bay. — 1827
• History of New Zealand
  • Chapter i. — The Maoris
  • Chapter ii. — European Discoveries
  • Chapter iii. — Traffic with Maoris
  • Chapter iv. — Te Pehi
  • Chapter v. — Sir George Gipps
• Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.
  • CHARLES DARWIN'S JOURNAL — DURING THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. "BEAGLE" — ROUND THE WORLD — CHAPTER I. — ST. JAGO—CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS
  • CHAPTER VIII. — BANDA ORIENTAL AND PATAGONIA. —
  • CHAPTER X. — TIERRA DEL FUEGO. —
  • CHAPTER XI. — STRAIT OF MAGELLAN.—CLIMATE OF THE SOUTHERN COASTS. —
  • CHAPTER XVIII. — TAHITI AND NEW ZEALAND. —
  • CHAPTER XIX. — AUSTRALIA. —
• Kōtare 1998, Volume One, Number One
  • Who do you think you are? Forms of address in the Wellington Corpus of Spoken English
• Kōtare 1999, Volume Two, Number Two
  • The Great Romance, by The Inhabitant
• Kōtare 2000, Volume Three, Number Two
  • Review of Cook’s Sites. Revisiting History
• Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
  • William Golder, 1810–1876
• Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’
  • Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, c.1832–17 April 1893
• La Nouvelle-Zélande
  • Chapitre II Historique abrégé de la découverte et de la colonisation
• Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 1926
• Life in Feejee, or, Five Years among the Cannibals
  • Chapter I
• Manual of the New Zealand Flora.
  • A History — of — Botanical Discovery in New Zealand
• Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
  • Index — Roman numerals indicate chapters; Arabic figures paragraphs
  • Traces of a Fair-haired Race in the Other Groups
  • But the most Fundamental Phase of a People's Culture — is its Social Order and its Relationship to Land; — and here there is evidence in polynesia not — merely of adaptation to environment, but of — Inter-mixture of Race
  • Whence the Spiral in Tattooing?
• Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century:
  • [text]
  • APPENDIX. The Death of Te Ha-mai-waho
  • Tau-kawau's Expedition, 1816–17
  • The Wai-te-mata and Thames in 1820
  • Te Morenga's Expedition to Tauranga. — January and February, 1820
  • Wai-paoa, 1820–21
  • Pomare and Te Wera-Hauraki's Expedition to the South, 1823
  • Te Wera Settles at Te Mahia Peninsula, — 1823
• Moko; or Maori Tattooing
  • Moko and Mokamokai — Chapter I — How Moko First Became Knows to Europeans
  • Illustrations
  • Chapter III — Moko Women
  • Chapter X — Tradition, History, and Incidents of Mokamokai
  • Chapter XI — Methods of Embalming
  • Chapter XII — Traffic in Heads
  • Chapter XIII — Mokoed Heads in Museums and Collections
  • Index
  • [frontispiece inserts]
• Mokomokai: Commercialization and Desacralization
  • [section]
• Mokomokai: Preserving the Past
• Murihiku: A History of the South Island of New Zealand and the Islands Adjacent and Lying to the South, from 1642 to 1835
  • [1907 Preface]
  • CHAPTER II. — Cook Explores, 1770
  • CHAPTER III. — Cook's Second Visit, 1773
  • INDEX
• New Zealand Plants and their Story
  • [introduction]
  • The Forsters, Father and Son
  • The Families and Genera
  • Index
• Notes on the Ancient Dog of the New Zealanders
  • Colenso.—Notes on the ancient Dog of the New Zealanders
• Polynesian Voyagers. The Maori as a Deep-sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer
  • Melanesian Element in Polynesia
• Samoa Under the Sailing Gods
  • III
• Smoked Heads
• Sport 17: Spring 1996
  • The Assumption of Mr Dickson into the Order of Domestic Cats
• Sport 26: Autumn 2001
  • II An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific
• Sport 32: Summer 2004
  • Ian Wedde — A hymn to beauty: days of a year
• The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions: Tai-Nui. [Vol. V]
  • Upoko X
• The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions. Nga-Puhi [Vol. X, English]
  • Chapter V
• The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions. Nga-Puhi [Vol. X, Māori]
  • Upoko V
• The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
  • [vegetation of Funafuti Atoll]
  • History
  • Postscript
  • Adzes and Axes
  • Pump Drill.*
  • Rasp
  • Spades
  • Simple Fish-hooks
  • Pearl Shell Bonito Hooks, "Bawonga."
  • Canoes
  • Cordage
  • Flasks
  • [XVII] — The Mollusca. — Part I.—Gasteropoda
  • Solarium hybridum, Linne
  • Ceeithium obeliscus, Bruguiere
  • Cerithium asperum, Linne
  • Cypæa scurra, Chemnitz
  • Cypæa testudinaria, Linne
  • Cypæa talpa, Linne
  • Cypæa goodalli, Gray
  • Cypæa mauritiana, Linne
  • Cypæa mappa, Linne
  • Cypæa moneta, Linne
  • Cypæa tigris, Linne
  • Cypæa vitellus, Linne
  • Cypæa Poearia, Linne
  • Cypæa helvola, Linne
  • Cypæa Cicbrcula, Linne
  • Cypæa nucleus, Linne
  • Cypæa childreni, Gray
  • Mitra episcopalis, Linne
  • Mitra cucumerina, Lamarch
  • Mitra Ferruginea, Lamarck
  • Mitra Acuminata, Swainson
  • Mitra Brunnea, Pease
  • Mitra Limbifera, Lamarck
  • Mitra litterata, Lamarck
  • Turricula Variata, Reeve
  • Turricula Nodosa, Swainson
• The Coming of the Maori
  • Introduction of Birds and Animals
  • 3 — Villages and Forts
  • Painting
• The Early Journals of Henry Williams
  • Index of Persons
• The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771 [Volume One]
  • Introduction — The Young Banks
• The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
  • 1 Brogdens' Navvies
  • 5 Colony and Hearthland, 1874–80
  • 1 Brogdens' Navvies
• The Genealogy of the Kings of Rarotonga and Mangaia as illustrating the colonisation of that island and the Hervey Group
  • [introduction]
  • [Kings of Mangaia, Hervey Group.]
• The Long White Cloud
  • Chapter IV — The Navigators
  • Chapter V — No Man's Land
  • Chapter VI — Mission Schooner and Whale Boat
  • Chapter X — In the Caudine Forks
  • INDEX
  • New Zealand Literature
• The Maori Situation
  • IV—Civilizing the Maori
• The Maori - Volume I
  • II The Maori as a Seafarer, and Coloniser—the Peopling of New Zealand
• The Maori - Volume II
  • X Social Customs— continued Customs Pertaining to Sickness, Death, Burial and Exhumation
• The New Zealand Dental Services
  • 1. New Zealand
  • The Surgery
  • Index
• The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)
  • (Chapter 1) — Early Military Operations in New Zealand
  • Chapter 2: The Beach at Kororareka
• The Old Whaling Days
  • Personal Index
• The Origins of International Rivalry in Samoa: 1845–1884
  • Chapter I — The Origins of British Influence the Missionaries, 1836–45
  • ii. The Islands and their Discoverers
  • Index
• The Royal New Zealand Navy
  • Chapter 1 — Genesis of Royal New Zealand Navy
  • CHAPTER 27 — Organisation of Naval Staff
  • Index
• The Story Of Gate Pa, April 29th, 1864
  • Native Tribes of Tauranga — A Brief History up to the date of the Gate Pa Battle
• The War in New Zealand.
  • Conclusion
• Tuatara: Volume 13, Issue 3, November 1965
  • Botany of the Southern Zone — Exploration to 1843
• Tuatara: Volume 21, Issues 1 and 2 (New Zealand Albatrosses and Petrels: an Identification Guide)
  • Group 2— — The Large Procellaria Petrels — and Gadfly Petrels
• Tuatara: Volume 22, Issue 3, February 1977
  • A Brief History of New Zealand Marine Biology
• Tuatara: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 1956
  • Key to the Genera of Cyperaceae in New Zealand
• Vikings of the Sunrise
  • Illustrations
  • 7. The Centre of the Triangle
  • 9. The Southwest Course
  • 20. The Base of the Triangle
  • Index
• With the Lost Legion in New Zealand
  • Preface
• Women Speak Out! A Report of the Pacific Women's Conference. October 27 – November 2
  • New Zealand
  • Australia
• ‘A Curious Document’: Ta Moko as Evidence of Pre-European Textual Culture in New Zealand

Cited in

• A year among the Maoris: study of their arts and customs
  • Bibliography
• Mangaian Society
  • Literature Cited
• The Life of Captain James Cook
  • Bibliography
• The Maori - Volume II
  • List of Authorities Quoted
• Tuatara: Volume 13, Issue 3, November 1965
  • Botany of the Southern Zone — Exploration to 1843

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External Links

• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

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• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
• Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
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• Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
• nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

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