by Tony Horwitz
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de
Bounty, H.M.S.
Brando, Marlon
Britain. See also London; Yorkshire
Australia as colony of
Cook claims territories for
Resolution returns to, after third voyage
war with France
British
Australians vs.
Canadian natives and
British Columbia
British Museum
British National Maritime Museum (Greenwich)
British Natural History Museum
British Parliament
Buchan, Alexander
Buck, Rob
Burke, Edmund
“Burnett” (Banks’s mistress)
Burney, Lt. James
Burton, Richard
Bush, George W.
Byron, Anson
Cairns, Australia
Campion, Robert
Canada. See also British Columbia
natives in
Cannibal Cove
Cape Flattery
Cape Horn
Cape Suckling
Cape Town
Cape Tribulation
Cape York Peninsula
Captain Cook, Hawaii
“Capt. Cook & Staithes Heritage Centre” (Yorksire)
Captain Cook Birthplace Museum (Yorkshire)
“Captain Cook Buoy” (Botany Bay)
“Captain Cook Commemorative Service” (St. Mary’s Church, Whitby)
Captain Cook Landing Place Reserve (Australia)
Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum (Yorkshire)
Captain Cook Society
Carstensz, Jan
Catherine the Great, Tsarina of Russia
Cave of the Tongans (Niue)
Chaucer
Cheek, Ken
Chignik, Alaska
China
Christian missionarie s. See also Russian Orthodox church
Alaska and
Australia and
Hawaii and
New Zealand and
Niue and
Tahiti and
Tonga and
Churchill, Winston
Clerke, Charles
Alaska and
Botany Bay and
death of Cook and
death of, in Kamchatka
on Endeavour
Hawaii and
on Maori cannibalism
New Zealand and
Northwest Passage and
on second voyage
on third voyage as captain of Discovery
Tonga and
Cold Bay, Alaska
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Columbus, Christopher
Conrad, Joseph, Cook as Kurtz of
Cook, Albert (“descendent”)
Cook, Albert Edward (“descendant”)
Cook, Christiana (sister)
Cook, Elizabeth Batts (wife)
death of Cook and
monument to, in Australia
Cook, George (“descendant”)
Cook, Grace Pace (mother)
Cook, Hugh (son)
Cook, Captain James
Aborigines and
on Aborigines
accomplishments of
Alaska, artists sketches in
Alaskan coast and
Alaskan natives and
Alaskan place names and
on ambition
in Antarctic
apprenticeship of
Australia, Cooktown landing site in
Australia, crew problems near
Australia, first voyage to
Australia, places named after
Australia, kangaroos and
Aborigines on Endeavour River and
Banks and
in Batavia and disease
birth of
body at temple after death of
“bomb” of, in Hawaii
bones of
Bora-Bora and
Boswell on
cannons of, recovered
careers of men who served
celebrity of
commemoration of death of, in
Hawaii
commissioned to map South Pacific
contemporary Aborigine on
contemparary Hawaiians on
contemporary Maori on
contemporary Tahitians on
contemporary Tongans on
contemporary white Australians on
crew and
crew and death of
crew, diet and health of
crew, difficulties with, on third voyage
death of, in Kealakekua Bay
death site of
deaths of children of
decision to follow in wake of
declining health of, on second and third voyages
denounced by missionaries to Hawaii
deserters and
difficulties faced by
disillusion of, with exploration
distance sailed by
drawing by, near Tolaga Bay
early years of, in Navy
Easter Island and
education and youth of
in England after return of Endeavour
enigma of
faith of, in observation
family burial plot
first voyage of, departs
first voyage of, returns
food and
grave of, in Yorkshire
Great Barrier Reef and
Greenwich Hospital sinecure and
Hawaii, deification of, on last day of journal entry
Hawaii, first contact with
Hawaii, last weeks before death of
Hawaii, monument to, at
Kealakekua Bay
Hawaii, temple site of ceremony for
Huahine and
ill mood of, on third voyage
illness of, in Antarctic
impact of, on lands and peoples
imperialist vs. God-like figure of historical memory
joins Navy as young man
journals of
journals of, no record of last month in Hawaii
journals of, message in
laments consequences of discovery
London house of
legacy of
letters of, destroyed by wife
in London
Maori and
marries Elizabeth Batts
memory of, in England
monument to, in London
names places
natives, fury at, on third voyage
navigation tools of
New Zealand and
New Zealand, charts of
New Zealand, “crook” monument to
New Zealand, landing in Tolaga Bay
New Zealand, new statue of, in Gisborne
New Zealand, second trip to
Niue or Savage Island and
Nootka Sound and
Northwest Passage and
Pacific Northwest and
paintings of
paintings of death of
patrons of
personality, childhood and math skills of
personality, novelty-seeking of
personality, Quakers and
personality, simplicity and humility of
physical description of
pleasure of exploration and
Polynesian politics and
Polynesian religion and
possible opiate or alcohol dependency
prizes fact over fantasy and
Raiatea and
reason for going to sea
reason for third voyage
relationship with wife
religion and
Russians and, in Unalaska
St. Lawrence River charted by
schedule of, and sense of chance
second and third voyages of, journals written on
second search for southern continent proposed by
second voyage accoun
t set down by
second voyage of, on Resolution departs
similarity of, to Star Trek’s Kirk
sisters and
South Sea company shilling and
speculates on origin of South Sea islanders and New Zealanders
Tahiti, disillusionment with, on return
Tahiti, first voyage to
Tahiti, memorial to
Tahiti, rules on behavior toward islanders
takes lands for British with
“consent” of natives
Tasmania and
third voyage
third voyage, accepted by
third voyage, inhospitable areas reached
third voyage, northern charts by
third voyage, returns to England
after death of
time spent at sea by
on Tonga
Tonga, possible descendants of
Tongan rulers and
in Unalaska with Aleuts
unreality of Pacific islands for
voyages of, overshadowed by wars
Whitby home of employer
writing and schooling of
Yorkshire background of
Cook, James (father)
Cook, James (son)
Cook, Jane (sister)
Cook, John (brother)
Cook, Macy (“descendant”)
Cook, Margaret (sister)
Cook, Mary (first sister)
Cook, Mary (second sister)
Cook, Nathaniel (son)
Cook, Tiraha
Cook, Tom (“descendant”)
Cook, William (brother)
Cook, William (“son”)
Cook Birthday Festival (Yorkshire)
“Cook Country” tour (Yorkshire)
Cook house site (Mile End, London)
Cook Islands
“Cook’s Cottage” monument (Great Ayton, Yorkshire)
Cook’s Cove
Cook’s Log (newsletter)
Cooktown, Australia
Aborigines and
contemporary
Cook “Discovery Festival,”
Cook monument at
Cook repairs Endeavour near
history of Europeans in
Cooktown Herald
Crowley, Bob
Crozet, Julien
Cundlemong (Aborigine elder)
Cunningham, Pat
Daintree Rainforest
Dalrymple, Alexander
Dampier, William
Dance, Nathaniel
Darwin, Charles
Death of Cook, February 14, 1779, The (Kane painting)
Deep Bay, Alaska
Deeral, Eric
“Description of King Georges Island” (Cook)
Diamond, Jared
Dibble, Rev. Sheldon
Discourses (Rousseau)
discovery
Cook on, and Maori
first contact, moment of
notion of, and Cook
Discovery, H.M.S.
Hawaii and
voyage home
“Discovery Festival” (Cooktown, Australia)
diseases
Aleuts and
Batavia and
Hawaiians and
malaria
measles, in Tahiti
Niue’s dread of
scurvy
smallpox, in Tahiti
tuberculosis
typhoid fever
venereal disease, in Hawaii
venereal disease, in Tahiti
dispossession, as legacy of Cook
Dolphin
Downs, Laurie
Dracula (Stoker)
Drake, Francis
Dreamtime
Dryden
Duff (ship)
Dunnett, Gary
Dusky Bay
Dutch East Indies
Dutch Harbor, Alaska. See also Unalaska Island
bombed by Japanese
Cook in
Eagle, H.M.
Easby Moor (Yorkshire), Cook monument at
Easter Island
Einstein, Albert
Elim Lutheran mission (Australia)
Elizabeth II, Queen of England
Elliot, John
Ellis, William (missionary)
Ellis, William (surgeon’s mate)
Endeavour, H.M.S.
Australia and
Banks and Cook’s partnership on
Batavia stop by, and disease
botanical drawings published
Botany Bay and
cannon from, counterfeit
class divisions on
Cooktown landing and
Cooktown repairs and
crew of, after death of Cook
crew life on
crew lost from accident and disease
crosses equator
departs from England
difficulty of sailing on
England homecoming
fate of
as first voyage of scientific discovery
food aboard
Great Barrier Reef escape of
Great Barrier Reef struck by
journals on, vs. later voyages
length of journey
library of
Maori memory of
mission of, to chart Pacific
New Zealand and
people and animals on board
size and design of
southern continent search and
Tahiti and
Endeavour (replica)
application to sail on
crew life on
class divisions on
Maori threats against
professional sailors on
Endeavour Heipipi Park (New Zealand)
Endeavour River. See also Cooktown, Australia
English Bay
boat trip to
Cook’s site at
Enlightenment
Entsch, Warren
environmental problems
Australia and
Bora-Bora and
Botany Bay and
global warming and
Hawaii and
equator crossing ritual
“Essay by Way of Lecture, on the Game of Whist, An” (Burney)
European impact, see environmental problems; native or indigenous people
Faanui, Bora-Bora
False Pass, Alaska
Fattafee, Tu’i Tonga (leader of Tonga)
Fiji
Finau, chief of Tonga
First Fleet
bicentennial celebration
replica of
Firth, Ann
Firth, Reg
Fleck, James (brother-in-law)
Flierl, Johann
Flinders, Matthew
Flower, Peter
Foggy Cape
food
in Alaska
Aleuts and
in Antarctic
antiscurvy
on Endeavour
in New Zealand
in Niue
in Tahiti
in Tonga
Forster, George
Forster, Johann Reinhold
Franklin, Benjamin
Freelove (coal ship)
Freeman, Cathy
French
in contemporary Raiaeta
nuclear tests
Tahiti and
French Polynesia
Fresne, Marion du
Friendly Archipelago
