People/Characters: Captain James Cook, RN, FRS

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Age of exploration by John Rigby Hale
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
All We Did Was Fly to the Moon (History-alive series) by Dick Lattimer
Antarctica: Journey to the South Pole by Walter Dean Myers
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere
Arctic passage: The turbulent history of the land and people of the Bering Sea, 1697-1975 by William R. Hunt
The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages: Voyage of the "Resolution" and the "Discovery", 1776-80 v. 3 (Paul Mellon Centre by Rudiger Joppien
The Birth of Sydney by Tim Flannery
Bis ans Ende der Meere: Die Reise des Malers John Webber mit Captain Cook by Lukas Hartmann
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
Bryce Courtenay Introduces The Australian History Collection by Bryce Courtenay
Captain Cook by Alistair MacLean
Captain Cook (Peeps at Great Explorers) by G. E. Mitton
Captain Cook and the South Pacific by T. C. Mitchell
Captain Cook And The South Pacific
Captain Cook and the South Pacific by Oliver Warner
Captain Cook and the South Pacific (British Museum yearbook ; 3) by British Museum
Captain Cook and the South Pacific; the voyage of the "Endeavour," 1768-1771 by John Michael Gwyther
Captain Cook and the voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771 by Frank Knight
Captain Cook Explores the South Seas by Armstrong Sperry
Captain Cook's Apprentice by Anthony Hill
Captain Cook: A Legacy Under Fire by Vanessa Collingridge
Captain James Cook by Alan Villiers
Captain James Cook by Richard Hough
Captain James Cook. by Australian Publishing Co
Captain James Cook: Three Times Around the World (Great Explorations) by Milton Meltzer
Charco Harbour by Godfrey Blunden
Charles Darwin: A New Life by John Bowlby
Coastal Exploration of Washington by Robert Ballard Whitebrook
Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook by Nicholas Thomas
Endeavour by Peter Aughton
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific by Capt. James Cook
An eyewitness history of Australia by Harry Gordon
Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz	mentioned
Far Voyager: The Story of James Cook by Jean Lee Latham
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook by Martin Dugard
The Fatal Impact by Alan Moorehead
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
The fatal voyage. Captain Cook's last great journey by Peter Aughton
The flower chain : the early discovery of Australian plants by Jill Duchess of Hamilton
Historical records of New South Wales. Vol.1, part 1. Cook, 1762-1780 by F. M. Bladen
How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example by Marshall Sahlins
Islands of History by Marshall Sahlins
James Cook and New Zealand by A. Charles Begg
James Cook, Royal Navy by George Finkel
James Cook: A World Explorer by Adele De Leeuw
The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics) by James R. Cook
The last voyage of Captain James Cook by Richard Alexander Hough
The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary by Hammond Innes
The Life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole
Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth by Ed Wright
Magnificent Voyage: An American Adventurer on Captain James Cook's Final Expedition by Laurie Lawlor
The Mammoth Book of Explorers (Mammoth Books) by John Keay
Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife by Marele Day
Never Learn Anything From History by Kate Beaton
The Northwest Coast; a Century of Personal Narratives of Discovery, Conquest & Exploration from Bering's Landfall to Wilkes' Surveys 1741-1841. by Edward Eberstadt
The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley: 1769-1845 by Beth Hill
Resolution by Peter Aughton
The Return of Lono: A Novel of Captain Cook's Last Voyage by O. A. Bushnell
The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories by Val Ross
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands by Gavan Daws
There she blows : sealing & whaling days in New Zealand by Sarah Ell
The Three Voyages of Captain Cook by Frank Paluka
To Go Upon Discovery : James Cook and Canada, from 1758 to 1779 by Victor Suthren
Too many Captain Cooks by Alan Tucker
Transit of Venus (Dr Who Companion Chronicles 3.7) by Jacqueline Rayner
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
The Value of Boldness: The Story of Captain Cook (Valuetale) by Johnson
Visions of Australia : impressions of the landscape 1640-1910 by Eric C. Rolls
Voyage of the Endeavour : Captain Cook and the discovery of the Pacific by Alan Frost
Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage by Glyn Williams
Voyages of Discovery/Captain Cook by James Cook
Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific by Lynne Withey
Voyages to Paradise : Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook by William R. Gray
The young Captain Cook by Frank Knight

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Captain James Cook, a British naval officer, b. 1728; discoverer of the Sandwich Islands. Explored and/or mapped the coast of Newfoundland, the St. Lawrence River, eastern coast of Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Tahiti, and Hawai'i where he died in 1779.