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Exploring Cook

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Exploring Cook

The massive volumes of The journals of Captain James Cook represented more than two decades of work by scholar J. C. Beaglehole, and according to critic E. H. McCormick 'displayed to the full his superb gifts as historian and editor'. They were followed by a biography of Cook, widely recognised as Beaglehole's finest work.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

by Marguerite Hill

Photograph courtesy of J. C. Beaglehole Room, Victoria University of Wellington Library

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Alex Calder, Non-fiction – Beginnings, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43282/exploring-cook (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Alex Calder, i tāngia i te 11 November 2013.