Captain Cook Bibliography

Cook Books since 1965

This page is part of a Captain Cook bibliography, itself a support to the Captain Cook Encyclopaedia. It links to lists of books, in whole or in part, about Captain James Cook. All the items in these lists have been published in or since 1965. It is by no means comprehensive but items will continue to be added as details are known. Please let me know about omissions.

For material about Cook prior to 1970 I refer people to
Bibliography of Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator, edited by M.K. Beddie. Sydney: Library of New South Wales, 1970. 724099999.

Beddie's work is extremely comprehensive and essential for anyone interested in Cook.

Recent and forthcoming titles (plus some missed earlier).

This time there are a couple of theses reworked as books (Currie and Richardson) and some exhibition related works as well as a few books.

Aughton, Peter. The Fatal Voyage: Captain Cook's Last Great Journey. USA: Interlink , 2005. 156656610X.
Brown, Stephen R. Age of Scurvy: How a Surgeon a Mariner and a Gentleman Helped Britain Win the Battle of Trafalgar. UK: Summersdale, 2005. 184024402X.
Cook's sites. Sydney: Museum of Sydney, 2005.
Currie, Noel Elizabeth. Constructing Colonial Discourse: Captain Cook at Nootka Sound. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2005. 0773529152.
Dead reckoning: William Bligh, edited by Jordan Kaplan. London: Museum of Garden History, 2005. 0954761731.
Denby, Joolz. Talisman. Whitby: Captain Cook Memorial Museum, 2005.
Fryer, Mary Beacock, and Christopher Dracott. John Graves Simcoe, 1752-1806: a biography. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998. 1550023098.
Ledyard, John. The Last Voyage of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard, edited by James Zug. Washington: National Geographic Society, 2005. 0792293479.
Richardson, Brian W. Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. 0774811897.
Samwell, David. The Death Captain Cook and other writings by David Samwell, edited by Nicholas Thomas, Martin Fitzpatrick and Jenny Newell. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006. 0708319688.
Whelen, Bill. Captain Cook's Navigator and Coleridge's Poem: William Wales, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and 'the Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2005 1877276480.

Titles for children.
Beales, R.A. James Cook: The Pacific Coast and Beyond. USA: Crabtree, 2005. 0778724158. (Juvenile).
Bergin, Mark. You Wouldn't Want to Travel with Captain Cook!: A Voyage You'd Rather Not Make. New York: Franklin Watts, 2006. Hbk, 0531124215. Pbk, 0531124460. (Juvenile).
Levene, Rebecca. Captain Cook. London: Usborne, 2005. 074606425X. (Juvenile).

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