A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold for ... The medal has the two ships commissioned for the voyage - HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure - and the ...

Cook captained the HMS Resolution on a voyage to find land mass in the southern seas, sailing alongside Captain Charles Clerke on the HMS Discovery. Cook was accompanied by the naturalists Johann ...

I first encountered Tupaia while researching Captain Samuel Wallis and the European discovery of Tahiti, and the subsequent voyages of James Cook and William Bligh ... as to describe Tupaia as a ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James ... Resolution and the Discovery. They ...

After English Captain Cook was killed by Hawaiians at Kealakekua, Hawaii, on Feb. 14, 1779, Captain Clerke took command of Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery and prepared to resume Co ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.

in July 1794 during Captain George Vancouver's voyage in the Pacific on HMS Discovery (1791-5) and is one of the earliest documented pieces to have been collected among the Tlingit people.