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.

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across ... and three small open boats, conceived an insanely ambitious sea voyage.

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

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold ... to future explorers that Captain Cook had been the first to reach unexplored lands and also to introduce ...