Cook’s first round-the-world voyage left England ... and added more than 5,000 miles of shoreline to the map of the Pacific. His next voyage met with similar success, earning him both fame ...

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, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...