The new book Captain Cook's War and Peace: the Royal Navy years, 1755-1768 has been published in the UK by Seaforth Publishing. Details are available on Seaforth Publishing's web pages.
The book has also been published in Australia and New Zealand by the University of New South Wales Press. Details are available at UNSW Press web pages.
For people in North America, the US Naval Institute Press has published the book. Details at the US Naval Institute Press web pages.
And, of course, you can purchase copies from online agencies such as Amazon. The book covers Captain James Cook's career in the Royal Navy prior to joining the Endeavour and sailing to the Pacific.
I should be able to give some time now to updating these pages but please do let me know of any significent errors or ommissions. I have begun loading entries for all the men who sailed with Cook, even where we know little else than their name.
| My pages were started in January 2001 and last edited in October 2009. Please feel free to link to any of these pages. If, however, you would like to download and use any of their content on your own pages, please contact me first. I will normally grant permission provided my name as the author is acknowledged and highlighted. If you have any comments, please contact John Robson at jcr@quicksilver.net.nz |
| The following links will take you to pages I have developed on particular people and events, especially to do with eighteenth century exploration: |
| Captain Cook index pages | James Cook in Newfoundland |
| The Men who sailed with Captain James Cook provides background on many of those men. | Musters of the men on Cook's ships. |
| The Captain Cook Encyclopaedia. | Cook Bibliographies |
| Northwest Coast of America exploration | George Vancouver |
| The Men who sailed with Captain George Vancouver | French Explorers |
| Jean-Francois de Galaup de La Pérouse | Louis-Antoine de Bougainville |
| I am also concerned about the plight of Turtles and Sea Otters and have started pages to celebrate these lovely animals amd to bring them to more people's attention. However, at this stage I have not had the time to do anymore than provide links to other people's pages. |
| Turtles | Sea Otters |