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 ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final ... his second Pacific voyage, Mai requested passage, becoming the first Polynesian to ...

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold ... to future explorers that Captain Cook had been the first to reach unexplored lands and also to introduce ...