ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; Part I: The Years in England; 1. Cook's nursery: Whitby's eighteenth-century merchant fleet; 2. 'Remember me to my good friend Captain Walker': James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers; 3. James Cook and the Royal Society; Part II: The Pacific Voyages; 4. 'Notwithstanding our signs to the contrary': textuality and authority at the Endeavour River, June to August 1771; 5. Tute: the impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook; 6. Some thoughts on Native Hawaiian attitudes towards Captain Cook
7. Captain Cook's command of knowledge and space: chronicles from Nootka SoundPart III: Captain Cook and his Contemporaries; 8. A comparison of the charts produced during the Pacific voyages of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook; 9. Successors and rivals to Cook: the French and the Spaniards; 10. Russian responses to the voyages of Captain Cook; Part IV: The Legacy of Captain Cook; 11. Redeeming memory: the martyrdoms of Captain James Cook and Reverend John Williams; 12. 'As befits our age, there are no more heroes': reassessing Captain Cook
Summary
Essays reassess Cook's standing as a leading figure in eighteenth-century history, exploration and the advancement of science
