Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage ... At Moorea, 12 miles from Tahiti, Cook created a “swinging bridge” from ...

It is even thought that Captain James Kirk ... high officials within the Admiralty. Cook’s first round-the-world voyage left England in 1768, bound for Tahiti. He commanded a ship called ...

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first ... precisely toward Tahiti. Cook, uniquely among European explorers, understood what Tupaia’s feats meant.

I first encountered Tupaia while researching Captain Samuel Wallis and the European discovery of Tahiti, and the subsequent voyages of James Cook and William Bligh,' Anne explains. 'In both Wallis's ...