Books and Articles

Anderson, Matthew S.. Europe in the Eighteenth Century 1713/1783. New York: Longman, Inc. 1984.
Cobbe, High, ed. Cook’s Voyages and the People of the Pacific. London: British Museum and the British Library Board, 1979.
Conner, Daniel, and Lorraine Miller. Master Mariner: Capt. James Cook and the Peoples of the Pacific. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978.
Kemp, Peter, ed. The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Murray-Oliver, Anthony. Captains Cook's Hawaii as Seen by His Artists. Wellington, New Zealand: Millwood Press, 1975.
Price, A. Grenfell, ed. The Explorations of Captain Cook in the Pacific. New York: Dover Pub., 1971.
Robson, John. Captain Cook's World: Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook R.N. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
Sahlins, Marshall. How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Smith, Smith. Imagining the Pacific. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. New York: Walker and Company, 1995.

Supplemental Text

• Cook's Journal entry for January 19 - 21, 1778
• Cook's Journal entry for November 26 - 30, 1778
• King's Journal entry for January 19 - 26, 1779

• Drawings

  Numbers 1 - 10 from [Atlas to Accompany A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 1st Ed. London, 1784]. Newberry Library call number: Case oversize G 420.C66

  1. plate 60: "An Offering before Capt. Cook, in the Sandwich Islands"
  2. plate 61: "Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing Presents to Capt. Cook"
  3. plate 62: "A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing"
  4. plate 63: "A Young Woman of the Sandwich Islands"
  5. plate 64: "A Man of the Sandwich Islands, with his Helmet"
  6. plate 65: "A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the Rowers Masked"
  7. plate 66: "A Man of the Sandwich Islands, in a Mask"
  8. plate 67: "Various Articles, at the Sandwich Islands"
  9. plate 68: "A View of Karakooa, in Owyhee"
  10. picture of the H.M.S. Resolution and the H.M.S. Discovery. Detail from plate 68.

• Maps

  Good online basemaps of the United States and regions of the United States:

  1. National Geographic.com MapMachine:
     http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/plates.html
  2. National Geographic also offers printable black-and-white maps at:
     http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html
  3. Make your own custom base maps for free at The National Atlas of the United States
     website: http://nationalatlas.gov/

• modern map of Hawaii (see Supplemental Images)
• Supplemental Images 1 and 9
• King's Journal entry for January 19 - 26, 1779

Grades 3-5

• modern map of Hawaii (see Supplemental Images)
• Longitude Worksheet

Grades 6-8

• Cook's Journal entry for November 26 - 30, 1778
• King's Journal entry for January 19 - 26, 1779
• Supplemental Images 6, 9, and 10
• modern map of Hawaii (see Supplemental Images)

Grades 9-12

• Supplemental Images 3 through 8
• modern map of Hawaii (see Supplemental Images)
• Cook's Journal entry for January 19 - 21, 1778
• Cook's Journal entry for November 26 - 30, 1778
• King's Journal entry for January 19 - 26, 1779