Captain Cook Was Here

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publisher Place: Cambridge
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 164 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This book tells the story of the first landing of Captain Cook on the east coast of Australia in 1770.

Over eight days and eight nights in late April of 1770, Captain Cook and the men of the Endeavour made their first extended landfall on the east coast of New Holland. The ensuing events and interactions between the voyagers and the indigenous inhabitants were marked by drama and intrigue, courage and fear.

But the story does not end with the Endeavour sailing away. The original encounter on land between the British mariners and the first Australians has been on of Australia's founding legends. Bringing together first-hand historical accounts, oral narratives, surviving objects and artefacts plus much of the artwork produced during Cook's time on shore, Maria Nugent takes a challenging new look at the impact of Cook's arrival on the land and on its people.

Captain Cook Was Here reconnects with the stories that all Australians - Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal - have told through their art, history and folklore.


About the Author

Maria Nugent is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia and in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. She is the author of Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet, which won the New South Wales Premier's Community and Regional History Prize in 2006.

ISBN: 9780521762403