Author:
O'Sullivan, Dan.
Imprint:London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionvi, 263 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Cook the unknown -- Timeline of the first voyage -- pt. I. The journals -- Entertaining the reader -- Bookmakers -- Journals as history -- Journals as narrative -- pt. II. Cook's relations with his colleagues -- Timeline of the second voyage -- The ships' companies : officers -- The ships' companies : men -- Men of silence -- Health among seamen -- pt. III. Cook's relations with Pacific Islanders -- How to study natives -- How to treat natives -- Natives Cook knew -- Sex in the South Seas -- pt. IV. Assumptions, ambitions, achievements -- Cook and divine providence -- Nation and empire -- Trade and improvement -- Science and navigation -- Timeline of the third voyage -- The death of cook -- Conclusion.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-256) and index.
