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.

James Cook’s first voyage of exploration which saw him become the first European to lay eyes on Australia took nearly three ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...

Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost ... hitting public display for the first time in more than 100 years. Among the collection, there’s a thorny oyster, a sunburst ...

The first encounters between the native peoples ... David Hemblen plays Capt. James Cook in Canada: A People's History. By the nineteenth century, Europeans and Indians were into the third century ...

An 18th century shell collection from Captain James Cook’s third voyage ... sent back from Cook’s ill-fated voyage, is to go on public display for the first time in more than 100 years.