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Captain Cook is a 1972 book about Captain Cook by Alistair MacLean. [1] It was a rare non fiction work from MacLean who wrote it out of his great admiration for Cook. [2] [3]In 1976 Maclean's second wife Mary formed a company with producer Peter Snell, Aleelle Productions, who aimed to make movies based on MacLean novels including Golden Gate, Bear Island, The Way to Dusty Death and Captain ...
Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
Captain Cook (book) Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum; Captaincookia; A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern Hemisphere; Charles Clerke; James Colnett; James Cook Collection: Australian Museum; Cook Island, Tierra del Fuego; Cook Park, Orange; Elizabeth Batts Cook; Cooks ...
Samwell became a surgeon in the Royal Navy and between 1776 and 1779 he sailed around the world with Captain James Cook on board HMS Resolution. [3] As a ship's surgeon it was Samwell's job to ensure the crew's health did not deteriorate over the long journeys to the Pacific Ocean. Aboard the ship Samwell wrote of his travels, including some ...
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Researchers at the Australian National Maritime Museum said they have found evidence that a shipwreck located in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, is the remains of the HMS Endeavour, a British Royal ...
Apollo 15's command and service module CSM-112 was given the call sign Endeavour; astronaut David Scott explained the choice of the name on the grounds that its captain, Cook, had commanded the first purely scientific sea voyage, and Apollo 15 was the first lunar landing mission on which there was a heavy emphasis on science. [124]
Alastair Cook (born 1984), English cricketer; Ephraim Cook (mariner) (1737–1821) Henry Cooke (composer) (c. 1616 – 1672), also known as Captain Cook, English composer, choirmaster and singer; Samuel H. Cook, Union officer of the American Civil War