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 the Pacific ... Yes, we explore to find a better place to live or acquire a larger territory ...

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 ...