Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James ... When Cook sailed in seven years later on his second Pacific voyage, Mai requested passage, becoming ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages ... third to the map of the known world. Vanessa Collingridge travels in his footsteps to ...

There’s also a detective story en route, as Cook searches for the truth about a grisly episode ­concerning his second ...