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Wikipedia

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Some Print Resources at the WCC Library

  • The Illustrated Longitude by Dava Sobel (QB225 .S63 1998)
  • Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands : Studies in Continuity and Change edited by Richard Feinberg (GN662 .S43 1995)
  • Ships and seafaring in ancient times by Lionel Casson (VM15 .C353 1994)
  • 1421 : the Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies (G322 .M46 2003)
  • Who’s Who in Pacific Navigation by John Dunmore (Reference Collection, DU19 .D78 1991)

Note: in the WCC Library, try browsing the GN section in either the Main or the Reference collections for books on navigators or try key word searches for particular places or people, like "Australia" or "George Vancouver".

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Digital Books (via eBrary and NetLibrary)

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Captain Cook's Voyages

  • Captain Cook : Voyager Between Worlds by John Gascoigne (G246.C65 G38 2007)
  • Longitude and Empire : How Captain Cook’s Voyages Changed the World by Brian Richardson (G246.C7 R53 2005)
  • How "Natives" Think : About Captain Cook, for Example by Marshall Sahlins (Hawaiian Collection, DU626.O283 S35 1995)
  • The Apotheosis of Captain Cook : European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere (DU626 .O28 1992)
  • The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery, 4 volumes edited by J.C. Beaglehole (Hawaiian Collection, G420.C62 C66 1999)
  • The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages by Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith (Hawaiian Collection, G420.C62 J66 1985)
  • The Captain Cook Myth by Jillian Robertson (Hawaiian Collection, G246.C7 R63)

For more resources, including online journal articles, check out the WCC Library main page.

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