Cook
Cook names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Cook JAMES, a British navigator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES, a British navigator; born in Yorkshire , in 1728, of parents not above the rank of peasantry. was at first apprenticed to a shopkeeper, but became a sailor . In 1755 he entered the royal navy, and four years later as sailing-master of the "Mercury" surveyed the St. Lawrence river and the coast of Newfoundland . Some observations on a solar eclipse , communicated to the Royal Society , brought him into notice, and he was appointed commander of a scientific expedition to the Pacific. During this expedition he successively visited Tahiti, New Zealand , and discovered New South Wales. In 1772 Captain Cook , now raised to the rank of a commander in the navy, commanded a second expedition to the Pacific and Southern oceans. In 1776 he again set out on an expedition to ascertain the possibility of a N. W. passage. On this voyage he explored the W. coast of C 0 CAPTAIN JAMES COOK North America, and discovered the Sandwich Islands, on one of which, Hawaii, he was killed by the natives, Feb. 14, 1779.
Cook FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, American naval officer , born in 1843. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1863 and served during the Civil War. He rose through the various grades, becoming captain in 1896. During the Spanish-American War he commanded the cruiser "Brooklyn." At the Battle of Santiago Bay, the "Brooklyn," in his command, destroyed the Spanish vessel "Cristobal Colon." Until his retirement in 1903 he served on the Naval Examining and Retiring Board. He died in 1916. He
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 that Cook "discovered New South Wales" and was "killed by the natives" of Hawaii; both phrases now read as the sticking points rather than the facts. Australia's 250th anniversary of Cook's 1770 landfall at Botany Bay in 2020 was marked as much by protest as by celebration, with Aboriginal Australians pointing to tens of thousands of years of prior occupation, and statues of Cook in Australia and elsewhere have been vandalised or removed; his death at Kealakekua Bay in 1779 is now told with Hawaiian actors and grievances named. On the maritime side, the Australian National Maritime Museum announced in 2022 that a wreck in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, is Cook's Endeavour, sunk as a blockade hulk in 1778 — a claim its American research partner called premature. The short notice of Francis Augustus Cook of the Brooklyn stands as written.
Written for this edition, 2026.