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Arctic ambitions : Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage / edited by James K. Barnett and David L. Nicandri ; preface by Robin Inglis.

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Anchorage Museum ; Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., [2015]

Cook, James, 1728-1779.

Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.

Explorers -- Arctic regions -- Biography.

Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.

9781772030617 (hc.)

9780295993997 (hc.)

0295993995 (hc.)

xvii, 429 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 23 x 28 cm.

Co-published by Cook Inlet Historical Society and Washington State History Museum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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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