Carta de ła costa deTerranova, reałixada da James Cook e Michael Lane.
Cook el gera de umiłe orijine e so parescosexe. Intel1745 co disdete ani Cook el asa ła caxa dei genituri e el va łaorar inte na merseria a Staithes, un paesin a vari km de distansa da ła famegia. Pi invanti el xe stà contratà come aprendista inte na flota picenina de barche che łe trasportavacarbon al largo de ła costa inglexe. La prima mision xe sta so łaFreelove Collier. EL studia intanto łe nosion ùtiłi pa navegar. Infine el se ga arołà come vołontario inte łaRoyal Navy, ła armada real britànica1755.
Nonostante el so łaoro ło parava senpre via da caxa, el se ga spoxà el 21 de disenbre 1762 ne ła Ceza de St. Margaret, aBarking,Essex. El ga vuo 6 fiołi.
Gràfego coi detaji dei viaji de Cook. * roso: 1° viajo * verde: 2° viajo * blu: 3° viajo.
Beaglehole, John Cawte.Journals. Del biògrafo de Cook e editor dei so scriti.
Capper, Paul.Life in the Royal Navy (1755-1767), The Captain Cook Society: Cook's Log, 1985–1996.
Collingridge, Vanessa (Feb. 2003).Captain Cook: The Life, Death and Legacy of History's Greatest Explorer, Ebury Press,ISBN 0-09-188898-0.
Forster, Georg.A Voyage Round the World, ed. 1986 (publicada par prima olta el 1777 come:A Voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years, 1772, 3, 4, and 5), Wiley-VCH (1 de xenaro 1986).ISBN 978-3-05-000180-7
Horwitz, Tony (Oct. 2003).Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, Bloomsbury,ISBN 0-7475-6455-8
Lind, James (1753).A treatise of the scurvy.
Obeyesekere, Gananath (1992).The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific Princeton University Press.ISBN 0-691-05752-4.
Rigby, Nigel; van der Merwe, Pieter.Captain Cook in the Pacific. National Maritime Museum, Londres UK, 2002.ISBN 0-948065-43-5.
Sydney Daily Telegraph (1970).Captain Cook: His Artists - His Voyages.The Sydney Daily Telegraph Portfolio of Original Works by Artists who sailed with Captain Cook. Australian Consolidated Press, Sydney.