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.

They are all that remain from a collection of 40-50 stolen by James Cook and the crew of HMB Endeavour in 1770 – during the ...

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 ...