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Cook, James, 1728-1779.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Explorers -- Arctic regions -- Biography.
Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.
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Cook, James, 1728-1779.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Explorers -- Arctic regions -- Biography.
Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.
MARC Display
Arctic
ambitions
:
Captain
Cook
and the
Northwest
Passage
/ edited by James K. Barnett and David L. Nicandri ; preface by Robin Inglis.
Anchorage Museum ; Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., [2015]
Call #:
919.8 A675
Subjects
Cook
, James, 1728-1779.
Arctic
regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Explorers --
Arctic
regions -- Biography.
Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Northwest
Passage
-- Discovery and exploration.
ISBN:
9781772030617 (hc.)
9780295993997 (hc.)
0295993995 (hc.)
Description:
xvii, 429 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 23 x 28 cm.
Notes:
Co-published by
Cook
Inlet Historical Society and Washington State History Museum.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue : Three Comments on
Cook
's Third Voyage / Nicholas Thomas -- James
Cook
, Navigator and Explorer : The Pacific Experience, 1768-1776 / John Gascoigne -- James
Cook
and the
Northwest
Passage
: Approaching the Third Voyage / Glyn Williams -- Setting the Stage : Spain in the Pacific and the Northern Voyages of the 1770s / Iris Engstrand -- From Russia with Charts :
Cook
and the Russians in the North Pacific / Evguenia Anichtchenko -- James
Cook
and the New Navigation / Richard Dunn -- A New Look at
Cook
: Reflections on Sand, Ice, and His Diligent Voyage to the
Arctic
Ocean / David L. Nicandri -- Encounters : View of the Indigenous People of Nootka Sound from the
Cook
Expedition Records / Richard Inglis -- The
Cook
Expedition and Russian Colonialism in Southern Alaska / Aron L. Crowell -- Gifting, Trading, Selling, Buying : Following
Northwest
Coast Treasures Acquired on
Cook
's Third Voyage to Collections around the World / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- The International Law of Discovery : Acts of Possession on the
Northwest
Coast of North America / Robert J. Miller --
Cook
on the Coasts of the North Pacific and
Arctic
America : The Cartographic Achievement / John Robson -- Narrating an Alaskan Cruise : Aspects of
Cook
's Journal (1778) and Douglas's Edition of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784) / I.S. MacLaren -- The End of the Northern Mystery : George Vancouver's Survey of the
Northwest
Coast / James K. Barnett -- From Discoveries to Sovereignties : The Imperial Scramble for Northwestern North America / Barry Gough -- The Continuing Quest : The Lure of the
Northwest
Passage
in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / James P. Delgado -- Sea Ice in the Western Portal of the
Northwest
Passage
from 1778 to the Twenty-first Century / Harry Stern -- Marine Navigation in the
Arctic
Ocean and the
Northwest
Passage
/ Lawson W. Brigham -- The
Arctic
in Focus : National Interests and International Cooperation / Gudrun Bucher and Robin Inglis.
Summary:
"
Captain
James
Cook
is justly famous for his explorations of the southern Pacific Ocean, but the exploration of the northern Pacific and the
Arctic
are equally significant. On his third and final great voyage,
Cook
surveyed the
northwest
American coast hoping to find the legendary
Northwest
Passage
. While dreams of a
passage
proved illusory,
Cook
's journey produced some of the finest charts, collections and anthropological observations of his career. It also helped establish British relations with Russia and opened the door to the hugely influential maritime fur trade. This collection of essays from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars -- including former Vancouver Maritime Museum executive director James P. Delgado; Canada's preeminent naval historian, Barry Gough; Richard Inglis, former head of anthropology at the Royal British Columbia Museum; and University of Alberta historian I.S. MacLaren -- uses artifacts, charts, and records of the encounters between Native peoples and explorers to tell the story of this remarkable voyage. The book also provides new insights into
Cook
's legacy and his influence on subsequent expeditions in the Pacific
Northwest
"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
Other authors:
Barnett, James K., 1947-
Nicandri, David L., 1948-
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center.
Cook
Inlet Historical Society.
Washington State History Museum.
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