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Definition of Captain James Cook
1. Noun. English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Captain James Cook
Literary usage of Captain James Cook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... by Captain James Cook, commander of the Resolution, and Lieutenant James King
and Mr. William Bayly, late assistant at the Royal Observatory, ..."
2. A Chronological History of North-eastern Voyages of Discovery: And of the by James Burney (1819)
"Captain James Cook on the North-west Coast of America. JAM now to speak of a
voyage in which it was my good fortune (such I have always considered it) to ..."
3. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-, Martha Joanna Lamb, John Austin Stevens (1890)
"Captain James Cook, FRS thick, fitted to the bottom part with great strength and
ingenuity. It was rowed with a paddle about six feet long, ..."
4. Life on the Plains of the Pacific. Oregon: Its History, Condition and by Gustavus Hines (1852)
"... Head — Discoveries >of Captain James Cook —Captain John Mearls —Cape Disappoint-
ment —Robert Gray, of Boston —First visit to the coast — Second visit, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1871)
"Being a copious, comprehensive, and satisfactory Abridgment of the Voyage written
by Captain James Cook, ... and Captain James King . ..."
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