Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage ... At Moorea, 12 miles from Tahiti, Cook created a “swinging bridge” from ...

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

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first ... precisely toward Tahiti. Cook, uniquely among European explorers, understood what Tupaia’s feats meant.