Captain Cook: A Legacy Under Fire

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In 1768, James Cook, on an epic sea journey that secured his place in history, discovered Australia. One hundred years later, countering cherished legends, George Collingridge dared to claim that the Portuguese had gotten to Australia first. Now VANESSA COLLINGRIDGE, his distant cousin, unravels the strange tale of history's most fascinating explorer and the man who sought to dethrone him.

Collingridge charts Captain Cook's celebrated voyages: He mapped the Pacific islands, ...

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In 1768, James Cook, on an epic sea journey that secured his place in history, discovered Australia. One hundred years later, countering cherished legends, George Collingridge dared to claim that the Portuguese had gotten to Australia first. Now VANESSA COLLINGRIDGE, his distant cousin, unravels the strange tale of history's most fascinating explorer and the man who sought to dethrone him.

Collingridge charts Captain Cook's celebrated voyages: He mapped the Pacific islands, circumnavigated Antarctica, charted New Zealand, and discovered the New Hebrides and Australia, curing scurvy along the way. He was shipwrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, cruised with sails frozen amid two-hundred-foot-tall icebergs, struggled to keep his crew from losing battles with alcohol and Polynesian women, and somehow managed to stay one step ahead of competing French and Spanish explorers. Over his twenty-one years of adventure--until his murder on a beach in Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii in 1779--Cook changed the Western map of the world.

Or so schoolchildren were taught. In 1883 British aristocrat George Collingridge sailed Down Under in search of adventure--and came across maps of Australia dated 1542 and 1546, drawn in northern France but based on Portuguese originals, suggesting that Cook was not the first to reach Australia. This proposal would prove Collingridge's undoing--and yet it is a controversy that lives on.

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Already published and praised in England, this first book by British columnist and news anchor Collingridge presents a new take on the life of Captain James Cook, the British explorer and navigator whose journeys led to the "discovery" of Australia and the Hawaiian islands. After becoming fascinated at an early age with Cook's 18th-century exploits, Collingridge discovered during college at Oxford that a distant cousin, George Collingridge, more than 100 years after Cook's death, had risked his reputation with a convincing claim that Cook had not been the first to reach Australia. After spending "months trawling through map-room and libraries, retracing their footsteps," the author was able to produce this engaging account that links three decades-"a dance of a tango of three." Collingridge intercuts finely detailed chapters on Cook's exciting major explorations with her ancestor's more bookish investigation of newly discovered maps indicating that "the Dutch had certainly reached Australian shores at the start of the 17th century," which led to their mapping of western Australia, and that the Dutch documents were actually based on earlier maps made by the Portuguese. The author aptly achieves her stated goals of investigating Cook's real story, expanding the British version of Cook that is based on the way countries "manipulate history," and introducing a modern audience to the ongoing controversy over the Dutch-Portuguese maps. (Sept.) Forecast: Although it was praised in England, this excellent book's careful and deliberate account of exciting historical and psychological events may find itself competing with another Cook title, Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592280506
  • Publisher: Lyons Press, The
  • Publication date: 12/1/2003
  • Pages: 384
  • Product dimensions: 5.94 (w) x 8.94 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

VANESSA COLLINGRIDGE is the co-anchor of Britain's news program Tonight and writes a column for The Daily Telegraph. She studied geography at Oxford University and is currently a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Table of Contents

Preface 1
Introduction 9
1. Beginnings: James Cook's story 13
2. Beginnings: George Collingridge's story 21
3. A Taste of the Sea James Cook 1745 27
4. Italian Lessons George Collingridge 1867 31
5. 'Mr Cook's Genius and Capacity' James Cook 1755 35
6. 'The Happy Foresight of Mr Collingridge' George Collingridge 1870 52
7. The King's Surveyor James Cook 1762 59
8. In Search of Paradise George Collingridge 1872 64
9. The Surveyor's Art James Cook 1763 67
10. Trouble in Paradise George Collingridge 1879 77
11. 'To the Southwards' 82
12. Preparations James Cook 1768 105
13. The Voyage of the Endeavour James Cook 1768 117
14. Tahiti James Cook 1769 129
15. The 40th Latitude James Cook 1769 143
16. Botany Bay James Cook 1770 161
17. Jave La Grande George Collingridge 1883 168
18. Shipwreck! James Cook 1770 175
19. 'A Calamitous Situation' James Cook 1770 188
20. 'The Immortal Banks' England 1771 207
21. The Dieppe Maps George Collingridge 1883 223
22. 'Further than Any Other Man' James Cook 1772 228
23. The End of The Great Southern Continent James Cook 1773 233
24. Terra Australis Cognita George Collingridge 1885 258
25. The Dinner Party James Cook 1775 265
26. Closing the Loop 287
27. The Final Voyage James Cook 1776 290
28. The Secrets of the Maps George Collingridge 1895 299
29. Alaska James Cook 1778 306
30. Obsession and Betrayal James Cook 1779 327
31. Kealakekua Bay, 2001 343
32. The End of Ambition England 1780 347
33. Troublesome George Collingridge & the Ideas Revolution 352
34. Heroes, Heretics and The Great Whodunit 361
Select Bibliography 369
Index 371
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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 8, 2002

    THIS WAS A WONDERFUL BOOK ON CAPTAIN COOK ALSO THE UNKNOWN GEORGE COLLINGBRIDGE, AND VANESSA COLLINGBRIDGE THE AUTHOR

    Look at the subject first then read on. How I came about this book was I saw preview for History Channel's reality series on called the ship which was based on Captain Cook's first voyage. So I went to Barnes and Noble store with my mom and sister and saw this on one of the new books table in the front of the store. Miss Collingbridge is James Cook's distant cousin, and George Collingbridge's neice or cousin I forgot what which it was. The book was about how their lifes became almost the same not everything about (sorry for my grammar). This book was though (however you spell it) research, well written, and so on. I recommed not reading chapter 30. Obsession and Betrayal James Cook 1779 on pg. 327 past midnight because you will be thinking of it and have bad dreams about it and then finish the book. I told my mom about that and she yet me sleep in bed with her, my dad was away at the time. I still recommed reading it still.

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