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Captain Cook Rediscovered David L. Nicandri

Captain Cook Rediscovered By David L. Nicandri

Captain Cook Rediscovered by David L. Nicandri

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This first modern study to focus on James Cook's polar adventures, Captain Cook Rediscovered introduces an entirely new explorer who is more at home along the edge of the polar ice packs than the Pacific's sandy beaches.

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Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes by David L. Nicandri

Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame Captain James Cook's career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accomplishments of the Australasian first voyage but focuses on the second- and third-voyage discovery missions in the extreme latitudes, where Cook pioneered the science of iceberg and icepack formation. A truly modern appraisal of early polar science, Captain Cook Rediscovered resonates in the climate change era.

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David Nicandri has ransacked the archives and libraries in order to demonstrate, which he fully does, his view that, although many have seen Cook as an explorer of the tropics, it is in icy wastes and choked channels that Cook was at his best as a careful navigator and observer. -- Barry Gough, Victoria, BC * BC Studies, Issue 209 *
Ambitious ... courageous ... [Nicandri] targets inconsistencies in the scholarly treatment of Cook's actions ... an unquestionably strong book. -- Eric Oakley, Kennesaw State University * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *
David Nicandri's Introduction to this elegant volume summarises the arguments that he develops at length...few will change their minds entirely on reading Nicandri's arguments, but for many (including this reviewer) the book will make them look afresh at the well-worn accounts of Cook's three voyages. -- Glyn Williams * Cook's Log, Vol. 44 *
Captain Cook Rediscovered is an impressively researched book...There is no denying the quality of Nicandri's historical work. When read alongside the works of Ryan Tucker Jones and Bathsheba Demuth, this book proves essential in helping us better understand European exploration of the North Pacific. -- Michael A. Hill, The University of Kansas * Alaska History *

About David L. Nicandri

David L. Nicandri is the former executive director of the Washington State Historical Society, where he served from 1987 until his retirement in 2011.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Prequels

1 The North Sea and Canada

2 The Republic of Letters

3 The South Pacific

Part 2: A Frozen World

4 Toward the South Pole

5 The Limit of Ambition

6 Temporizing in the Tropics

7 Cook and Forster, on Ice

Part 3: A Third Voyage

8 An Ancient Quest: A New Mission

9 Southern Staging Grounds

10 Terra Borealis

11 Blink

12 Northern Interlude

13 Intimations of Mortality

Part 4: Sequels

14 Springtime in Kamchatka

15 Diminishing Returns

16 Seeding the Fur Trade on the Voyage Home

Conclusion

Notes; Bibliography; Photo Credits; Index

Additional information

GOR013692977
9780774862226
077486222X
Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes by David L. Nicandri
David L. Nicandri
Used - Like New
Hardback
University of British Columbia Press
2020-11-14
448
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