They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration. The HMS Endeavour voyage (1768–1771) was the first devoted to scientific discovery. Cook and his crew, which included ...

Cook had made two world voyages by the time the book opens ... the Resolution and the Discovery. They left England in July 1776. In addition to Cook’s story, other narratives weave through ...

A rare medal from Captain Cook's second voyage of discovery has sold for £6,500. The medal, which was expected to sell for £2,000, sold for more than three times its estimate and will now form ...