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Book Review

Oceania and the Pacific Islands

Glyndwr Williams, editor. Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments. (Regions and Regionalism in History.) Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 266. $75.00.
To this anthropologist reviewer, the prospect of learning more about Captain Cook—whose death recently became a cause célèbre when Marshall Sahlins and Gananath Obeyeskere debated how the perception of Cook affected his being killed—was a welcome opportunity. Given that interest in Cook and his voyages is not going away (a claim that is made in this collection more than once), a volume such as this one is a timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of an era, of some of the events of that era, and of some of the consequences—direct and indirect—of those events. It seems that there is a little something here for everyone: those interested in the matter of Cook's death, Cook biographers, and historians of eighteenth and nineteenth-century European thought. That is the good news. The bad news is that many of these essays seem only remotely related to each other, and the connections to Cook at times seem almost spurious.	1
The collection begins biographically, with attention to Cook's earlier years, before culminating with interpretations of his final voyage. Rosalin Barker and Richard C. Allen provide some remarkable background on Cook's youth, although Allen's essay falls short of providing any clear understanding of the degree of influence of Quakerism on Cook. Andrew S. Cook makes the ironic observation that the Royal Society claimed Cook more than Cook claimed them. It is interesting that, even while he was alive, people wanted to be associated with Cook; of course, this was also true after his death, a point made in several essays.	. . .

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