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.

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a ... elusive Northwest Passage. His third expedition consisted of 180 ...

They are all that remain from a collection of 40-50 stolen by James Cook and the crew of HMB Endeavour ... which tackles the ...