The Cook Voyages Encounters: The Cook Voyages Collections of Te Papa

Almost 250 years after James Cook first sighted Aotearoa New Zealand in October 1769 on the first of his three voyages of exploration, world-wide interest in all aspects of his exploration of the Pacific endures. During their encounters, the crew of his ships and Indigenous people did not share a language and so trade became a key means of communication. In this handsome book, widely respected Pacific scholar Janet Davidson details the collection of Maori, Pacific and Native American objects associated with Cook’s voyages that is held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.