Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery ... he would add one third to the map of the known world. Vanessa Collingridge ...

Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...

On the anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage to Australia, we consider the history of exploration through four objects including a map of sea monsters and a robot used for navigation ...

Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus), that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of ...

Captain James Cook and his journeys will ... “Most certainly his voyages and their astonishing achievements completed in ...