Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage ... He’d figured out how to avoid scurvy and brought home information of ...

Captain Cook is an icon within our seafaring heritage ... For centuries, experts have held that he never lost a single crew member to scurvy – the scourge of eighteenth-century sailors. Some have even ...

Captain James Cook also used the sounds for shelter and food. He made Meretoto/Ship Cove his base in the 1770s and discovered a plant (Cooks scurvy grass) high in vitamin C to cure scurvy. On Motuara ...

Captain James Cook also used the sounds for shelter and food. He made Meretoto/Ship Cove his base in the 1770s and discovered a plant (Cooks scurvy grass) high in vitamin C to cure scurvy. On Motuara ...