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Lying for the admiralty : Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage

Title
Lying for the admiralty : Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage / Margaret Cameron-Ash ; foreword by John Howard.
Author
Cameron-Ash, Margaret
Publication
  • Dural Delivery Centre, NSW : Rosenberg Publishing, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
240 pages; 25 cm
Summary
When the Admiralty sends Cook to observe the transit of Venus he is also told to find new territories for Britain and to take steps secretly to get in ahead of the French.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biography.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Clarion call: science, imperialism and the Transit of Venus -- Terra incognita: the race for dominance in the Southern Seas -- The French steal a march: Bouganville takes the Falklands -- The man at the admiralty: Philip Stephens and Anglo-French rivalry -- Byron and the Dolphin: secret orders, lost opportunity and censorship -- Chasing clouds in the Pacific: Samuel Wallis discovers Tahiti -- Bougainville's voyage to New Holland and lost opportunity -- Wooing the Royal Society: Dalrymple wins command of the Endeavour -- Dalrymple sacked: the East India Company and the general election -- An ambitious young gentleman: Joseph Banks builds his credentials -- James Cook: luck, patronage and mercantile beginnings -- Battles and cartography: Cook surveys the St Lawrence under fire -- Cold-War cartography: Cook chards Newfoundland and impresses the admiralty -- 'Greater objects': the admiralty's instructions to Cook -- 'Close and secret in his intentions': Cook, the admiralty, and cartographic secrecy -- Cook does his homework: Abel Tasman, Joan Blaeu and the VOC -- The odd couple: the relationship between Cook and Banks -- Ghostly presence: Cook disproves Dalrymple's theory of a temperate continent -- Venus and a Tahitian holiday -- Farther south: the wild goose chase for the southern continent -- North island: synchronizing with Tasman and possession dilemmas -- A transformative moment: proving Cook Strait -- Cook covers his tracks: Stewart Island becomes a peninsula -- Choosing a route home -- Inventing promontories, deleting coastlines: Cook lays a false trail in Bass Strait -- Interlude: hiding Bass Strait for thirty years -- Deception at Botany Bay -- 'A good harbour and several islands': Cook hides Port Jackson from his crew -- From Botany Bay to Cape York: the map of New Holland completed -- Not claiming New Holland: what really happened at Possession Island -- Dutch bureaucracy: evasiveness and delay at Batavia -- Rewriting the record: Cook's phantom possession ceremony -- Plague and delay at Batavia -- Homewood bound through a nest of spies -- The authorized version -- censorship -- Appendix: an analysis of Captain Cook's possession speech.
Call Number
JFE 19-3906
ISBN
  • 9780648043966
  • 0648043967
  • 9780648043973 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0648043975 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1027961439
Author
Cameron-Ash, Margaret, author.
Title
Lying for the admiralty : Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage / Margaret Cameron-Ash ; foreword by John Howard.
Publisher
Dural Delivery Centre, NSW : Rosenberg Publishing, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1700-1899
Research Call Number
JFE 19-3906
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