Captain Cook Encyclopaedia

The Captain Cook Encyclopaedia

Introduction

Chatham Publishing in the UK asked me to compile a Captain Cook Encyclopaedia. The book was published in late 2004 in the U.K. and also in Australia, New Zealand and has been distributed in the U.S.A. More information about the various editions can be found on the publishers' websites:

Bibliographic details for the editions of the Encyclopaedia are:

U.K. - Robson, John. The Captain Cook Encyclopaedia. London: Chatham Publishing, 2004. 1861762259. GBP 30.00. From Chatham Publishing.
N.Z. - Robson, John. The Captain Cook encyclopaedia. Auckland: Random House New Zealand, 2004. 1869416651. From Random House NZ
Australia - Robson, John. The Captain Cook encyclopaedia. Sydney: Random House Australia, 2004. 0759310114.
U.S.A. - Stackpole Books will distribute the UK. edition.

Buying the Encyclopaedia

The Encyclopaedia is now available in bookshops in all the countries where it has been published or distributed. If, for any reason, you have trouble purchasing it, please try one of the online booksellers. For example, in the UK, Amazon UK has the book,
and in the USA Amazon.com also offers the book.

These pages

It is my intention to use these pages to support the publication and provide a site for information that it was not possible to include in the printed work. For example, Corrections, omissions and additions will include such information.

The Book

Book jackets.
Contents and list of articles.
Illustrations:(to follow)
Contributors:(to follow)

Information about other people associated with Cook

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The recently published Dictionary has many pieces about people associated with Cook.
Extra articles about people associated with Cook for which there was no room in the printed Encyclopaedia.
Cook's Officers is a listing of all the commissioned officers on Cook's ships.
Wills contains the wills of many of the people associated with Cook.
Persons after whom Cook named geographical features.
Politicians and Senior Officials of the Admiralty and the Navy Board

Information about Cook's ships and naval matters

For basic specifications and details of cook's ships please click here.
A Glossary of terms associated with the Royal Navy in the eighteenth century.

Images

This page links to a series of photographs of places, ships and people associated with Cook. Also, there are reproductions of illustrations and charts from books and other works dealing with Cook.

Click on Images

Captain Cook Bibliography

In 1970, The Mitchell Library, part of the State Library of New South Wales, published what was, at the time, the definitive bibliography (edited by M.K. Beddie) about Captain James Cook. Since then, however, a huge amount of material has been written about Cook in books and journal articles.

Click on Bibliographies to find lists of bibliographies about Cook.

Zoology and Botany

Cook's voyages produced much in the way of botanical and zoological specimens. Many can now be seen on line:

Botanical:

Botanical paintings by Sydney Parkinson from the first voyage, most of which eventually appeared in Banks' Florilegium.
Other botanical images from later voyages will be added later.

Zoological:

Bird drawings and paintings from the three voyages.
Fish drawings and paintings from the three voyages.
Zoological paintings by Sydney Parkinson from the first voyage.
New Zealand Zoological drawings by George Forster.
Birds by William Ellis from the third voyage.
Information about images of mammals, reptiles and invertebrates will be added later.

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