Captain Cook Rediscovered : Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes

Nicandri, David L.

University of British Columbia Press（2020/11発売）

University of British Columbia Press（2020/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 448 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774862226
• DDC分類 910.92

Full Description

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. Recognizing that Cook sailed more miles in the high latitudes of all of the world's oceans than in the tropical zone, this book gives due attention to his voyages in seas and lands usually neglected. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accomplishments of the Australasian first voyage but focuses on the second- and third-voyage discovery missions near the poles, where Cook pioneered the science of iceberg and icepack formation. This ground-breaking book overturns an area of study that has been typically dominated by the "palm-tree paradigm" - resulting in a truly modern appraisal of Cook for the climate change era.

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