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250 Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook – Alice Te Punga Somerville

With sharp wit and incisive scholarship, Alice Te Punga Somerville offers 250 possible beginnings—fragments, provocations, refusals, and challenges—that confront Captain Cook’s global colonial legacy. Drawing on deep research and dark humour, this book resists tidy conclusions, instead exposing the tensions, silences, and power structures that continue to shape how Cook is remembered and taught.

Bold, playful, and intellectually rigorous, Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook is both a critique and a creative intervention. As part of the BWB Texts series, it insists not on definitive answers, but on asking better, sharper, more uncomfortable questions about history, memory, and colonial inheritance.

Key Features:

• A provocative and original response to Captain Cook’s colonial legacy

• Combines scholarly research with wit, irony, and creative form

• Challenges dominant historical narratives and methods of writing history

• Part of the acclaimed BWB Texts series

• Essential reading for those interested in decolonisation, history, and critical thinking

Product Details:

• Author: Alice Te Punga Somerville

• Format: Soft Cover

• ISBN: 9781988587745

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