Research Catalog

Title

James Cook and the exploration of the Pacific.

Publication

London : Thames & Hudson, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kaeppler, Adrienne L., 1935-2022
• Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
• Universität Göttingen. Institut für Ethnologie
• Museum für Völkerkunde (Austria)
• Bernisches Historisches Museum
• [rk]Bernisches Historisches Museum.

Description

276 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 29 cm.

Summary

Captain Cook's three voyages - James Cook's navy - A New Zealand Maori perspective - Australian perspective - Vanuatu perspective - Hawaiian perspective - Death of Cook - Enlightenment - Endeavour - Encounter - Catalogue.

Subject

• Cook, James, 1728-1779 > Travel > Pacific Area > Exhibitions
• Cook, James, 1728-1779 > Ethnological collections > Exhibitions
• Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland > Exhibitions
• Universität Göttingen. Institut für Ethnologie > Exhibitions
• Museum für Völkerkunde (Austria) > Exhibitions
• Bernisches Historisches Museum > Exhibitions
• [rk]Bernisches Historisches Museum > Exhibitions
• Natural history > Pacific Area > Exhibitions
• Natural history > Oceania > Exhibitions
• Pacific Area > Discovery and exploration > Exhibitions
• Oceania > Discovery and exploration > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibit "James Cook and the exploration of the Pacific" organized by the Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Aug. 28, 2009-Feb. 28, 2010 ; in cooperation with the Institut für Ethnologie der Universität Göttingen, the Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, May 10-Sept. 13, 2010 and the Historisches Museum Bern, October 7, 2010-February 13, 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Captain Cook's three voyages of enlightenment / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- James Cook's navy / Nigel Rigby -- A New Zealand Maori perspective : Cook's three voyages to Aotearoa between 1768 and 1779 / Paul Tapsell -- The Australian perspective on Cook / Maria Nugent and Jenny Newell -- The Vanuatu perspective on Cook / David Luders -- History through our eyes - the Hawaiian persepctive / Rocky K. Jensen and Lucia Tarallo Jensen -- The death of Cook / Anne Salmond -- Communication structures among European scholars in the age of enlightenment / Hans Erich Bödeker -- The Enlightenment : programme, movement, era / Oliver R. Scholz -- Botany in the age of enlightenment / H. Walter Lack -- Zoology in the age of enlightenment / Rainer Willmann -- Enlightened ethnographic collections / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Joseph Bans (1743-1820) / Jeremy Coote -- Johann Reinhold and Georg Forster / Dieter Heintze -- John Webber - painter and collector / Thomas Psota -- James Burney and his collection in the cabinet of curiosities in Barby / Stephan Augustin -- Astronomy - the transit of Venus / Gloria Clifton -- Navigation in the 18th century / Richard Dunn -- James Cook and late 18th-century geography and cartography / Gillian Hutchinson -- Life on voard / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin -- Enlightened encounters in the unknown Pacific / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Forster's observations in the South Seas / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin -- Revisioning gender and sexuality on Cook's voyages in the Pacific / Margaret Jolly -- Conflicts, tragic moments and violence / Gundolf Krüger -- James Cook in America / Christian Feest -- The artists on James Cook's expeditions / Rüdiger Joppien -- Catalogue.

ISBN

• 9780500515167 (hbk.)
• 0500515166 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 432406923
• SCSB-10373559

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library