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.

May explores the stories of Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain James Cook in a new Channel 5 series.

The first encounters between the native peoples of Canada and the Europeans took place on the East Coast, and it wasn't until many years later that natives on the West Coast began meeting the ...

Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth ... After Parkinson died on the return leg of the voyage, Banks commissioned artists in London to produce finished ...