Should they encounter the British captain James ... Cook’s mission was to locate the fabled Northwest Passage, thought to ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook ... the two ships were in the Arctic Ocean sailing toward Siberia. Cook was careful, “zagging ...

Captain James Cook and his journeys ... “[Captain Cook] moved to Whitby and he was apprentice to Captain John Walker who ran collier ships up and down the North Sea coast between Whitby ...