Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a controversial historical figure, especially in light of increasing ...

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 ...

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ... focuses on the genes that build two key systems: our limbs and our brains.

Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost, but it turns out that a lecturer had pulled them from a dumpster 40 years ago. The collection, with roughly 200 specimens from ...

This was a key phenomenon ... On a second voyage in 1644 he encountered and charted much of the western and southern coast of present-day Australia, naming it Nova Hollandia (New Holland). Well over a ...

On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James Cook landed ... on their homeward voyage when they sighted South Georgia. After their initial discovery and landing, Cook began mapping ...

That can't happen again and running back James Cook will have a big role to play in the Bills getting past the Ravens at Highmark Stadium. Such is Cook's importance, NFL.com's Eric Edholm thinks ...

The voyages of Captain James Cook delivered new and exciting scientific and geographical discoveries to the western world. "Natural Curiosities", such as rocks, plants and animals were obviously ...

When it comes to the passing attack, the "everybody eats" mantra has fueled this Bills season, and for running back James Cook, it is the uncertainty for defenses regarding where the ball is going ...