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The dissenting minister Andrew Kippis (1725-95) was a Member of the
Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Society. With this work of
1788, he was the first biographer of Captain James Cook (1728-79),
although several of Cook's colleagues, including Johann Reinhold
Forster in 1778 and David Samwell in 1786, had previously published
memoirs of their service with him. Believing that 'his public
transactions ... are the grand objects to which the attention of
his biographer must be directed', Kippis draws on the official
Admiralty accounts of Cook's voyages and focuses on his
professional life. The book was criticised at the time for failing
to convey Cook's personality and motivation, stressing his
achievements without putting them in context. However, it remained
the only biography for forty years, and shaped public perception of
Cook as a brilliant navigator and commander, a fearless explorer
and an exemplary British hero.
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