Captain Cook Bibliography

Conference papers and chapters in books.


This page is part of a Captain Cook bibliography, itself a support to the Captain Cook Encyclopaedia. The page lists pieces about Cook that have either been papers presented at conferences or have been chapters in multi-author volumes. They are organised firstly in alphabetical order by author and secondly by the conference and/or book in which they were published. The page was last updated on 12 August 2004.

Alphabetical listing.

By clicking on the live link in square brackets you will see the bibliographic details of the volume in which the paper or article appears.

Allen, Richard C. 'Remember me to my good friend Captain Walker': James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers. pp. [Williams].
Badger, G.M. Cook the scientist. pp. 30-49.[Badger].
Baldwin, Robert. Cook's charts and surveying methods. pp. 88-101. [Cordingly]..
Barber, H. Newton. The Botany of the South Pacific. pp. 87-117. [Badger].
Barker, Rosalin. Cook's Nursery: Whitby's Eighteenth-Century Merchant Fleet. pp. [Williams].
Beaglehole, J.C. Cook the man. pp. 11-29. [Badger].
Beresford, Amanda. Omai. pp. 147-148.[Eisler].
Blackett, Lord. Captain Cook and the Royal Society. pp. 7-10. [Badger].
Blunt, Wilfrid. Sydney Parkinson and his fellow artists. pp. 14-45. [Carr]..
---. The Voyage of the Endeavour. pp. 1-13. [Carr]..
Carr, Denis J. The Birds of Parkinson's sketchbook. pp. 250-251. [Carr]..
---. The Identity of Captain Cook's kangaroo. pp. 242-249. [Carr]..
Carter, Harold B. Notes on the drawings by an unknown artist from the voyage of HMS Endeavour. pp. 133-134.[Lincoln].
Clayton, Daniel. Captain Cook's Command of Knowledge and Space: Chronicles from Nootka Sound. pp. [Williams].
Cobbe, Hugh. The Voyages and their background. pp. 13-46.[Cobbe].
Cook, Andrew. James Cook and the Royal Society. pp. [Williams].
Cordingly, David. The Artists who sailed with Cook. pp. 80-87. [Cordingly]..
---. The Discovery of the lost portrait of Captain Cook. pp. 108-109. [Cordingly]..
Durrans, Brian. Ancient Pacific voyaging: Cook's views and the development of interpretation. pp. 137-166.[Mitchell].
Edwards, Phyllis. Plants of Madeira, Brazil and Tierra del Fuego. pp. 46-75. [Carr]..
Ellis, Markman. Tails of wonder: constructions of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century scientific discourse. pp. 163-182. [Lincoln].
Equipment for the voyages. pp. 68-71. [Cordingly]..
Fosberg, F.R., and Marie-Hélène Sachet. Plants of the Society Islands. pp. 76-107.[Carr]..
Gascoigne, John. Shaking off the Spanish yoke: British schemes to revolutionise America 1739-1807 Joseph Banks and the expansion of empire. pp. 39-51. [Lincoln].
Gathercole, Peter. Lord Sandwich's collection of Polynesian artefacts. pp. 103-116. [Lincoln].
Godley, E.J. Plants of New Zealand. pp. 108-127. [Carr]..
Hegarty, Neil. Unruly subjects: sexuality, science and discipline in eighteenth-century Pacific exploration. pp. 183-198. [Lincoln].
Henderson, R.J. Plants of Australia. pp. 128-177. [Carr]..
Hill, Dorothy. The Great Barrier Reef. pp. 70-86. [Badger].
His Majesty's dockyard at Deptford. pp. 44-53. [Cordingly]..
Horridge, G.Adrian. Malay boats. pp. 252-259. [Carr]..
Huggins, Jackie. Cook and the new anthropology. pp. 199-206. [Lincoln].
Inglis, Inglis. Successors and Rivals to Cook: the French and the Spaniards. pp. [Williams].
Joppien, Rüdiger. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's Pantomime "Omai, or a Trip round the world" and the artists of Captain Cook's voyages. pp. 81-136. [Mitchell].
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. Pacific culture and European voyages. pp. 141-146. [Eisler].
---. Tracing the history of Hawaiian Cook voyage artefacts in the Museum of Mankind. pp. 167-198. [Mitchell].
King, J.C.H. The Nootka of Vancouver Island. pp 89-108.[Cobbe].
King, Pauline N. Some Thoughts on Native Hawaiian Attitudes Towards Captain Cook. pp. [Williams].
Lambert, Andrew. Retracing the Captain: 'Extreme History', Hard Tack and Scurvy. pp. [Williams].
Lewin, Lord. James Cook: the man and his achievements. pp. 16-43. [Cordingly]..
Lysaght, A.M. Banks's artists and his Endeavour collections. pp. 9-80.[Mitchell].
Mackay, David. The Great era of Pacific exploration. pp. 109-119.[Hardy].
McGowan, A.P. Captain Cook's ships. pp. 54-67. [Cordingly]..
Murray, Stuart. 'Notwithstanding our Signs to the Contrary': Textuality and Authority at the Endeavour River, June to August 1770. pp. [Williams].
Orchiston, Wayne. From the South Seas to the sun; the astronomy of Cook's voyages. pp. 55-72.[Lincoln].
Perry, T.M. Australia and cartography of the late Eighteenth Century expeditions. pp. 129-133.[Eisler].
Rennie, Neil. The Point Venus 'scene'. pp. 135-146. [Lincoln].
Rigby, Nigel. The politics and pragmatics of seaborne plant transportation, 1769-1805. pp. 81-100. [Lincoln].
Robson, John. A Comparison of the Charts produced during the Pacific Voyages of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook. pp. [Williams].
Salmond, Anne. Tute: the Impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook. pp. [Williams].
Sivasundaram, Sujit. Redeeming Memory: the Martyrdoms of Captain James Cook and the Revd John Williams. pp. [Williams].
Smith, Bernard. The Intellectual and artistic framework of Pacific exploration in the Eighteenth Century. pp. 122-128.[Eisler].
Spencer, J.R.H. Coastal profiles and landscapes. pp. 260-274.[Carr]..
Starzecka, Dorota Czarkowska. Hawaii. pp. 109-128.[Cobbe].
---. New Zealand. pp. 71-88.[Cobbe].
---. The Society Islands. pp. 47-70.[Cobbe].
Stearn, William T. Plants of Java. pp. 178-194. [Carr]..
Stimson, Alan. Captain Cook and the new navigation. pp. 72-79. [Cordingly]..
Turnbull, David. Cook and Tupaia: a tale of cartographic méconnaissance? pp. 117-132.[Lincoln].
Wallis, Helen. Conclusion. pp. 129-142.[Cobbe].
Watt, Sir James. The Effect of health on Cook and his crews. pp. 102-107. [Cordingly]..
Werret, Simon. Responses to Cook in Russia. pp. [Williams].
Wheeler, Alwyne. Animals. pp. 195-241.[Carr]. .
White, Sir Frederick. Cook the navigator. pp. 50-69. [Badger].
Whitehead, Peter. Natural history drawing on British Eighteenth Century expeditions to the Pacific. pp. 135-140.[Eisler].
Williams, Glyndwr. 'As befits our age there are no more heroes': reassessing Captain Cook. pp.[Williams].
---. The Endeavour voyage: a coincidence of motives. pp. 3-18.[Lincoln].
---. New Holland: the English approaches. pp. 85-92.[Hardy].
---. New Holland to New South Wales: the English approaches. pp. 117-159.[Frost].
---, and Alan Frost. Terra Australis: theory and speculation. pp. 1-37.[Frost].
Woolley, Sir Richard. The Significance of the Transit of Venus. pp. 118-135. [Badger].

The World before Cook. pp. 10-15.[Cordingly]. .

Conference papers

Conference held at Middlesbrough in September 2002.

[Williams]. Published as:

Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments, edited by Glyndwr Williams. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2004.

Allen, Richard C. 'Remember me to my good friend Captain Walker': James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers. pp.
Barker, Rosalin. Cook's Nursery: Whitby's Eighteenth-Century Merchant Fleet. pp.
Clayton, Daniel. Captain Cook's Command of Knowledge and Space: Chronicles from Nootka Sound. pp.
Cook, Andrew. James Cook and the Royal Society. pp.
Inglis, Inglis. Successors and Rivals to Cook: the French and the Spaniards. pp.
King, Pauline N. Some Thoughts on Native Hawaiian Attitudes Towards Captain Cook. pp.
Lambert, Andrew. Retracing the Captain: 'Extreme History', Hard Tack and Scurvy. pp.
Murray, Stuart. 'Notwithstanding our Signs to the Contrary': Textuality and Authority at the Endeavour River, June to August 1770. pp.
Robson, John. A Comparison of the Charts produced during the Pacific Voyages of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook. pp.
Salmond, Anne. Tute: the Impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook. pp.
Sivasundaram, Sujit. Redeeming Memory: the Martyrdoms of Captain James Cook and the Revd John Williams. pp.
Werret, Simon. Responses to Cook in Russia. pp.
Williams, Glyndwr. 'As befits our age there are no more heroes': reassessing Captain Cook. pp.

Conference held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich in 1997.

[Lincoln]. Published as:

Science and exploration in the Pacific: European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth
  century,
edited by Margarette Lincoln. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press in association with the
  National Maritime Museum, 1998.

Carter, Harold B. Notes on the drawings by an unknown artist from the voyage of HMS Endeavour. pp. 133-134.
Ellis, Markman. Tails of wonder: constructions of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century scientific discourse. pp. 163-182.
Gascoigne, John. Shaking off the Spanish yoke: British schemes to revolutionise America 1739-1807 Joseph Banks and the expansion of empire. pp. 39-51.
Gathercole, Peter. Lord Sandwich's collection of Polynesian artefacts. pp. 103-116.
Hegarty, Neil. Unruly subjects: sexuality, science and discipline in eighteenth-century Pacific exploration. pp. 183-198.
Huggins, Jackie. Cook and the new anthropology. pp. 199-206.
Orchiston, Wayne. From the South Seas to the sun; the astronomy of Cook's voyages. pp. 55-72.
Rennie, Neil. The Point Venus 'scene'. pp. 135-146.
Rigby, Nigel. The politics and pragmatics of seaborne plant transportation, 1769-1805. pp. 81-100.
Turnbull, David. Cook and Tupaia: a tale of cartographic méconnaissance? pp. 117-132.
Williams, Glyndwr. The Endeavour voyage: a coincidence of motives. pp. 3-18.

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Cook Bicentenary Symposium held at the Australian Academy of Science, Canberra on 01 My 1969.

[Badger]. Published as:

Captain Cook, navigator and scientist: papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium,
   Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 1 May 1969,
edited by G.M. Badger. Canberra: Australian
  National University Press, 1970.

Badger, G.M. Cook the scientist. pp. 30-49.
Barber, H. Newton. The Botany of the South Pacific. pp. 87-117.
Beaglehole, J.C. Cook the man. pp. 11-29.
Blackett, Lord. Captain Cook and the Royal Society. pp. 7-10.
Hill, Dorothy. The Great Barrier Reef. pp. 70-86.
White, Sir Frederick. Cook the navigator. pp. 50-69.
Woolley, Sir Richard. The Significance of the Transit of Venus. pp. 118-135.

[Veit72]. Published as:

Captain James Cook: image and impact, South Seas discoveries and the world of letters, edited and
  introduced by Walter Veit. Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1972.

Bodi, Leslie. Captain Cook in German Imaginative Literature. pp. 117-137.
Dowling, Jack K. Bougainville and Cook. pp. 25-42.
Dunmore, John. The Explorer and the Philosopher. pp. 54-66.
Frost, Alan. Captain James Cook and the early Romantic Imagination. pp. 90-106.
Hoare, Michael E. The Forsters and Cook's Second Voyage (1772-1775). pp. 107-116.
Roderick, Colin. Sir Joseph Banks, Queen Oberea and the satirists. pp. 67-89.
Thiesch, Marlies. Cook plays now and then. pp. 43-53.
Veit, Walter. Captain Cook and comparative literature. pp. 1-24.

[Veit79]. Published as:

Captain James Cook image and impact: South Seas discoveries and the world of letters. Volume 2.
   The Pacific syndrome, conditions and consequences,
edited and introduced by Walter Veit.
  Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1979.

Albertsen, Leif Ludwig. Trusting in the Antipodes - a Danish poet's epic poem on James Cook. pp. 173-189.
Bodi, Leslie. Antipodean inversion and Australian reality. pp. 76-94.
Dunmore, John. Rousseau's Noble Savage - a New Zealand case history. pp. 160-172.
Frost, Alan. The Pacific Ocean - the Eighteenth Century's "New World". pp. 5-49.
Hoare, Michael E. The legacy of J.R. Forster to European science and letters before Cook's second voyage. pp. 64-75.
Macainsh, Noel. A Plain man's view of the Pacific - some notes on Heinrich Zimmermann and his background with a portrait. pp. 50-63.
Roderick, Colin. Supranational elements in Australian literature. pp. 190-200.
Veit, Walter. Intellectual tradition and Pacific discoveries - the function of quotations in Georg Forster's "Voyage round the world". pp. 95-117.

[Megaw]. Published as:

Employ'd as a discoverer: papers presented at the Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Symposium,
   Sutherland Shire, 1-3 May, 1970,
edited by J. V. S. Megaw. Sydney: A. H. & A. W. Reed for the
  Sutherland Shire Council, 1971.

Barber, H. Newton. Sir Joseph Banks and the Royal Society. pp. 64-85.
Beaglehole, J.C. Cook the navigator. pp. 117-134.
Beaglehole, J.C. Some problems of Cook's biographer. pp. 23-41.
Carolin, R.C. The Natural History of the Endeavour expedition. pp. 94-108.
Collins, Sir John. The Bark Endeavour and life aboard her. pp. 41-54.
Horwood, N. Introduction: James Cook and his predecessors in Australian discovery. pp. 17-22.
Knutzelius, I. Daniel Carl Solander. pp. 86-93.
Megaw, J.V.S. Cook and the Aborigines. pp. 55-63.
Robertson, W.H. The Endeavour voyage and observations of the Transit of Venus. pp. 109-116.

Captain James Cook and His Times (Conference) (1978 : Simon Fraser University).

[Fisher]. Published as:

Captain James Cook and his times, edited by Robin Fisher & Hugh Johnston. Vancouver: Douglas and
   McIntyre, 1979.

Archer, Christon I. The Spanish reaction to Cook's voyages. pp. 99-119.
Armstrong, Terence. Cook's reputation in Russia. pp. 121-128.
Fisher, Robin. Cook and the Nootka. pp. 81-98.
Frost, Alan. New geographical perspectives and the emergence of the Romantic Imagination.pp. 5-19.
Fry, Howard T. Alexander Dalrymple and Captain Cook: the creative interplay of two careers. pp. 41-57.
Hoare, Michael E. Two centuries' perceptions of James Cook: George Forster to Beaglehole. pp. 211-228.
Joppien, Rüdiger. The Artistic bequest of Captain Cook's voyages - popular imagery in European costume books of the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries. pp. 187-210.
Mackay, David. A presiding genius of exploration: Banks, Cook and Empire, 1767-1805. pp. 21-39.
Smith, Bernard. Cook's posthumous reputation. pp. 159-185.
Watt, Sir James. Medical aspects and consequences of Cook's voyages. pp. 129-157.
Williams, Glyndwr. Myth and reality: James Cook and the theoretical geography of Northwest America. pp. 58-80.

The following papers, which were read at the conference, were not published:

Carter, H.B. Cook's Oxford tutor: Sir Joseph Banks and European expansion in the Pacific region, 1767-1820.
Edwards, Phyllis. Sir Joseph Banks and the botany of Captain Cook's three voyages of exploration.
Gathercole, P.W. Perceptions of order: the significance of Cook's voyages for the study of Polynesian ethnography, with particular reference to New Zealand.
Gibson, James R. The Significance of Cook's third voyage to tenure in the North Pacific.
Gough, Barry M. Cook and Canada: a chapter in the importance of the sea in Canadian history.
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. The Significance of Cook's third voyage for the study of Hawaiian art and society.
McCormick, E.H. Cook's first mission on his third voyage.
Pritchard, J.S. Hydrographic surveying of the St. Lawrence River before James Cook.
Ritchie, G.S. Captain Cook's influence on hydrographic surveying.
Stearn, W.T. The Botanical results of Captain Cook's three voyages and their later influence.
Wallis, Helen. Postscript to the voyages: some new sources and assessments.
Waters, D.W. Navigation at the time pf Cook's voyages and its influence on hydrographic surveying.
Whitehead, P.J.P. The Zoological collections brought back from Cook's voyages.

The following papers were offered but not read at the conference:

Medway, David. Some ornithological results of Cook's third voyage.
Svet, Yakov M., and Svetlana G. Fedorova. The Third voyage of Captain James Cook and Russia.

The Vancouver conference on Exploration and Discovery, 22-26 April 1992.

[Vancouver]. Published as:

From maps to metaphors: the Pacific world of George Vancouver, edited by Robin Fisher and Hugh
   Johnston. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1993.

David, Andrew. Vancouver's Survey Methods and Surveys. pp. 51-69.
Finney, Ben. James Cook and the European Discovery of Polynesia. pp. 19-34.
Frost, Alan. Nootka Sound and the Beginnings of Britain's Imperialism of Free Trade. pp. 104-126.
Howe, K.R. The Intellectual Discovery and Exploration of Polynesia. pp 245-262.
Lamb, W. Kaye. Banks and Menzies: Evolution of a Journal. pp. 227-244.
Mackay, David. The Burden of Terra Australis: Experiences of Real and Imagined Lands. pp. 263-289.
Williams, Glyndwr. Myth and Reality: The Theoretical Geography of Northwest America from Cook to Vancouver. pp. 35-50.

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Book chapters.

[Cordingly]. Published as:

Capt. James Cook: navigator. The achievements of Captain James Cook as a seaman, navigator and surveyor, edited by David Cordingly. London: National Maritime Museum, 1988.

Baldwin, Robert. Cook's charts and surveying methods. pp. 88-101.
Cordingly, David. The Artists who sailed with Cook. pp. 80-87.
---. The Discovery of the lost portrait of Captain Cook. pp. 108-109.
Equipment for the voyages. pp. 68-71.
His Majesty's dockyard at Deptford. pp. 44-53.
Lewin, Lord. James Cook: the man and his achievements. pp. 16-43.
McGowan, A.P. Captain Cook's ships. pp. 54-67.
Stimson, Alan. Captain Cook and the new navigation. pp. 72-79.
Watt, Sir James. The Effect of health on Cook and his crews. pp. 102-107.
The World before Cook. pp. 10-15.

[Mitchell]. Published as:

Captain Cook and the South Pacific, edited by T.C. Mitchell. London: British Museum, 1979.

Durrans, Brian. Ancient Pacific voyaging: Cook's views and the development of interpretation. pp. 137-166.
Joppien, Rüdiger. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's Pantomime "Omai, or a Trip round the world" and the artists of Captain Cook's voyages. pp. 81-136.
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. Tracing the history of Hawaiian Cook voyage artefacts in the Museum of Mankind. pp. 167-198.
Lysaght, A.M. Banks's artists and his Endeavour collections. pp. 9-80.

[Cobbe]. Published as:

Cook's voyages and peoples of the Pacific, edited by Hugh Cobbe. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum and the British Library Board by British Museum Publications, 1979.

Cobbe, Hugh. The Voyages and their background. pp. 13-46.
King, J.C.H. The Nootka of Vancouver Island. pp 89-108.
Starzecka, Dorota Czarkowska. Hawaii. pp. 109-128.
---. New Zealand. pp. 71-88.
---. The Society Islands. pp. 47-70.
Wallis, Helen. Conclusion. pp. 129-142.

[Carr]. Published as:

Sydney Parkinson: artist of Cook's Endeavour voyage, edited by D.J. Carr. Auckland: Nova Pacifica, 1983.

Blunt, Wilfrid. Sydney Parkinson and his fellow artists. pp. 14-45.
---. The Voyage of the Endeavour. pp. 1-13.
Carr, Denis J. The Birds of Parkinson's sketchbook. pp. 250-251.
---. The Identity of Captain Cook's kangaroo. pp. 242-249.
Edwards, Phyllis. Plants of Madeira, Brazil and Tierra del Fuego. pp. 46-75.
Fosberg, F.R., and Marie-Hélène Sachet. Plants of the Society Islands. pp. 76-107.
Godley, E.J. Plants of New Zealand. pp. 108-127.
Henderson, R.J. Plants of Australia. pp. 128-177.
Horridge, G.Adrian. Malay boats. pp. 252-259.
Spencer, J.R.H. Coastal profiles and landscapes. pp. 260-274.
Stearn, William T. Plants of Java. pp. 178-194.
Wheeler, Alwyne. Animals. pp. 195-241.

[Frost]. Published as:

Terra Australis to Australia, edited by Glyndwr Williams and Alan Frost. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Williams, Glyndwr. New Holland to New South Wales: the English approaches. pp. 117-159.
Williams, Glyndwr, and Aland Frost. Terra Australis: theory and speculation. pp. 1-37.

[Hardy]. Published as:

Studies from Terra Australis to Australia, edited by John Hardy and Alan Frost. Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1989.

Mackay, David. The Great era of Pacific exploration. pp. 109-119.
Williams, Glyndwr. New Holland: the English approaches. pp. 85-92.

[Eisler]. Published as:

Terra Australis: the furthest shore, edited by William Eisler and Bernard Smith. Sydney: International Cultural Corporation of Australia, 1988.

Beresford, Amanda. Omai. pp. 147-148.
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. Pacific culture and European voyages. pp. 141-146.
Perry, T.M. Australia and cartography of the late Eighteenth Century expeditions. pp. 129-133.
Smith, Bernard. The Intellectual and artistic framework of Pacific exploration in the Eighteenth Century. pp. 122-128.
Whitehead, Peter. Natural history drawing on British Eighteenth Century expeditions to the Pacific. pp. 135-140.

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